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It's not just a game. Your Pokemon Go player data is training AI map models.
Niantic's geospatial model is using geolocation data from scans players submit of real-world locations while playing the company's mobile games.
‘Pokémon Go’ Players Are Training AI Models To See The World
Data captured from Pokémon Go and other games are being used to create large AI models that can predict what buildings and other objects look like.
Niantic is building a ‘geospatial’ AI model based on Pokémon Go player data
The blog post explains that “Over the past five years, Niantic has focused on building our Visual Positioning System (VPS), which uses a single image from a phone to determine its position and orientation using a 3D map built from people scanning interesting locations in our games and Scaniverse,
Niantic is quietly using your Pokémon Go data to train large-scale geospatial AI models
Niantic is making geospatial AI models to help computers navigate real spaces, and it’s using your Pokémon Go data to help
'Pokemon Go' players revealed to have been training game developer’s new AI model
“Pokemon Go” developer Niantic announced its new AI model on Nov. 12, created using data players have sent over the years. The data-collecting feature, which can be disabled, is indicated in Niantic’s privacy policy, where the studio confirms it uses ...
Did you play Pokémon Go? You didn't know it, but you were training AI to map the world
You probably didn't know it, but if you played or are still playing Pokémon Go (there are more than half a million active players ), you were helping train an AI-powered geospatial model that aims to map the world.
Gotta Catch 'Em All: How Pokémon Go covertly captured your data for years to train a massive AI model
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, has been scraping users’ scans of the world to build a model that will help robots navigate physical space. Some experts are worried about the potential applications.
Aw, whoops, Pokémon Go users have been training robots to navigate the world
Making us genuinely nostalgic for those days when all that Pokémon Go users were doing was finding corpses and committing crimes, today it turns out that they’ve also been training robots how to, like,
Pokemon Go Uesd Data to Train AI According To Developer Niantic
Pokemon GO developer Niantic has revealed that they used player data from the popular mobile game to help build their large geospatial model. Released in 2016 and taking the world by storm, Pokemon GO is a popular mobile version of the iconic Pokemon series.
POKEMON GO Uses Player Photos to Teach AI Model
For better or worse, it’s an AI world, and we’re all just living in it. Yes, even if that world is the world of Pokémon GO. Via the folks at IGN, we’ve learned that Pokémon GO developer Niantic is currently creating an AI designed to auto-complete real-world locations.
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Pokemon GO’s Wild Raid Pass Controversy Explained
Pokemon GO and Niantic are receiving complaints and controversy surrounding an event, with some players upset about the ...
Pokémon Go Wild Area Global: Pick Amp it Up vs Keep It Lowkey
For big events, Niantic really likes letting players make some choices when it comes to the content they will get to interact ...
Pokémon Go trainers have actually been helping train AI, too
Niantic, the team behind Pokemon Go, is working on a new type of AI model that's training on data from its apps.
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Pokemon GO Wild Area Global - All Timed Research Tasks & Rewards
The Pokemon GO Wild Area Global event is now on, and a bunch of Timed Research has appeared for you to complete within the ...
Pokémon Go ‘An Accomplished Trainer’ choose a path quest steps: Electric or poison?
“An Accomplished Trainer” is Special Research available to ticket holders during Go Wild Area: Global 2024 in Pokémon Go.