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,
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 developer Niantic is using player data to train AI that could power map-roaming robots
According to a Niantic blog posts, Pokemon Go players have been helping train machine learning models for a while.
‘Pokémon Go’ Players Have Unknowingly Trained Niantic’s AI Model To Make A Robot Uprising Easier
Chances are you or someone you know has downloaded and played Niantic's Pokémon Go at some point because the game has been downloaded over 1 billion times
‘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.
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.
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. Players use their phones to travel the real world around them and capture digital Pokemon.
Pokemon Go players are actually training a giant AI model
The technical details may fly over the head of many who read Niantic's blog post, but the easiest way to think of it is that certain player actions in Pokemon Go have been trainin
Pokémon Go Maker Niantic Reportedly Using Game Data to Train AI Projects
The game's developer, Niantic, detailed a new AI product using geolocated images from all over the world to help robotics understand and interact with physical spaces.
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.
Pokémon Go Was A Plot To Use Your Data To Fast Track An AI-Slop Google Maps Competitor
Niantic, the privately-held Pokémon Go app parent company, brought the augmented-reality app to the masses in July of 2016, ...
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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 ...
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.