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.
Pokemon GO Data Used to Train Geospatial AI Model [UPDATED]
Pokemon Go developer Niantic reveals its long-term use of player data in the creation of a new large geospatial AI model.
Pokemon GO company uses player data for training AI map models
Niantic, the developer behind the creature-catching game Pokemon GO, announced that it is building an AI map model using player data. Its official website says it’s “pioneering the concept of
‘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
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Pokémon Go trainers have actually been helping train AI, too
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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.
Pokémon Go Players Have Been Unknowingly Training an AI to Auto-Complete the Real World
Pokémon Go developer Niantic is hard at work building and training an AI to essentially be able to auto-complete real-world locations with only a limited amount of information. And it's using data collected by Pokémon Go players to do it.
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