Posted on 11/21/2024 11:55:22 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Players of "Pokémon Go" — an augmented reality (AR) mobile game that took the world by storm upon its release in 2016 — have been unkowingly training an artificial intelligence (AI) model to map the planet at street level.
Niantic, the company behind the popular game, has revealed that it will use data scraped from its AR apps to construct a "large geospatial model" (LGM) that would enable robots and other devices to better navigate the physical world — even if they only have limited information.
The announcement, made Nov. 12 in a blog post on Niantic’s website, reveals that the company has drawn data from more than 10 million scanned locations worldwide, with users adding around 1 million more new scans each week.
This data has already been used to train 50 million local neural networks (collections of machine learning algorithms structured like the human brain) to operate in more than a million locations worldwide, the company said.
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(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
ok.. or they could just use google maps street view, but whatever
“[T]he whole world, including the United States, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
“ok.. or they could just use google maps street view, but whatever”
I don’t think they have access to Google’s images ...
Where is your citation?
Nothing scales like reality
Why did you change the quote?
It’s a verbatim excerpt, my FRiend. Nothing changed.
Must complete the Primary Objective!
I got Shoe!
Ha! Never did the scanning.
my point is that some people are acting like this is some major invasion of privacy or whatever, when you can get even better information off google maps
“It’s a verbatim excerpt, my FRiend. Nothing changed.”
Tou chopped off the first part of the sentence and added a capitalization to eliminate the context. But I caught you.
“my point is that some people are acting like this is some major invasion of privacy or whatever, when you can get even better information off google maps”
Pokemon Go goes where no google camera goes.
I’m just trying to find what the heck is AI. At 91 I ain’t gonna find out, so make it simple.
Artificial Intelligence.
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