Visual scans of the world have helped Niantic build what it calls a “Large Geospatial Model.”…

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Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system

Niantic, the company behind the game Pokémon Go, has announced that it is building a new and huge AI model thanks to millions of user data.

Niantic, la empresa detrás del juego Pokémon Go, ha anunciado que está construyendo un nuevo y enorme modelo de IA gracias a los millones de datos de los usuarios.

Niantic creará una IA GPS basada en datos de Pokemon GO

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Niantic will create a GPS AI based on Pokemon GO data

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge  Niantic has announced that it’s building a new “Large Geospatial Model” (LGM) that combines millions of scans taken from the smartphones of players of Pokémon Go and other Niantic products. This AI model could allow computers and robots to understand and interact with the world in new ways, the company said in a blog post spotted by Garbage Day. The LGM’s “spatial intelligence” is built on the neural networks dev…

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Niantic is building a ‘geospatial’ AI model based on Pokémon Go player data

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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.In an official blog post spotted by Garbage Day and reported on by 404 Media, Niantic revealed that it's building something called a "Large Geospatial Model." You may already know what a "Large Language Model" i…

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Pokemon Go players have been unknowingly training a large, geospatial AI model by playing the game.

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Pokemon Go players are actually training a giant AI model

Niantic, the privately-held Pokémon Go app parent company, brought the augmented-reality app to the masses in July of 2016, and the game made it onto over a billion phones before 2019. Statistically you’ve probably played it, but in case you haven’t, players of the game must travel to locations in the physical world…Read more...

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Did you play Pokémon Go? You didn't know it, but you were training AI to map the world

Augmented reality gaming company Niantic plans to develop an AI system for navigating physical spaces using data from millions of unsuspecting players of its games "Pokemon Go" and "Ingress," the company announced in a blog post. The "Large Geospatial Model" (LGM), named after language models like G...

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Pokemon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI To Navigate the World

Millions of images taken while playing Pokémon Go are being fed into a new AI model that one intelligence analyst warns could be used for AI-powered weapons.

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Ever Played Pokémon Go? You Helped Train an AI for 'Spatial Intelligence'

iStockphoto / Wachiwit  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 since it was released back in 2016. Now it has been revealed by the game’s manufacturer, Niantic, that players have been unknowingly helping to trainer their AI model (an LGM) to navigate the world in natural ways and sadly, anyone who played could have made a dystopian…

Niantic Uses Pokémon Go to Build AI Geospatial Navigation System

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