Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system
Visual scans of the world have helped Niantic build what it calls a “Large Geospatial Model.”…
Data is always worth something, eh.
Anyone who has ever touched their software knows how this will go....
Bothers me that much of this data has been collected without explaining what its intended purpose is. All those captchas that want you to pick out cars or bikes etc, Pokemon game that wants you to scan locations for free items... It simply never occurred to me that these were actually just ways to train AI surreptitiously
Have fun with my spoofed Geolocations going 30km/h through every Building in Zaragosa
Good luck driving via my gps drifts as i block the phone antennas to get more kilometers. If anything, nianitic is incompetent af, i played ingress for years and i know what they are "capable of".
For some reason my phone drifts like mad when I place it next to my wifi boxen. I've hatched so many eggs as my character just fucking charges around town. Good luck, cars! I obey no road rules!
What do we need this for? Not clear what it does
Seems to be a tool for taking an image and Geo-locating it, even in cases where other sources of data like Googles street map cars are insufficient.
AI delivery bots maybe? It's basically an aggregate of "here's where it's possible/common to walk" so it's not useful for driving/flying AI. Also useful for marketing, knowing where foot traffic is.
The article says they're treating it as a Large Geospatial Model (like a Large Language Model), so it seems like you could use that as a predictive way to navigate between two points. With an LLM it spits out phrases based on context. The LGM would return paths based on context.
Here is the original reporting https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-have-unwittingly-trained-ai-to-navigate-the-world/
I fuckin' knew it
Knew what? That they would use the user data for profit?
Who didn't?
I knew that Nintendo was behind Pokemon Go, the bastards!
My dad was killed by a charizard!
It's strange that Niantic is doing this when google has been doing the same thing with its own street map data.
Seems weird to make a competing product when (I thought) they are on good terms.
Google is going to get broken up. To what extent is the question. Companies positioning themselves for the aftermath of the Google break up like this isnt too wierd. Who knows what companies will aquire which Google assets so having your own means to seperate yourself from Google is just playing it safe.
It’s gonna be a bloodbath
reminds me of homeless hotspot project
