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Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World

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Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World

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Technology@beehaw.org · 1 month ago

Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a “Large Geospatial Model” that can navigate the real world and power robots.

It’s always about the data.

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Unwittingly? They paid you in-game currency to collect “research data”. What did people think they were doing?

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