Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Gotta Catch 'Em All: How Pokémon Go covertly captured your data for years to train a massive AI model
Live Science ^ | 11 21 2024 | Ben Turner

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.

SNIP

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ai; artificialintllgnce; data; pokemon; pokemongo

1 posted on 11/21/2024 11:55:22 AM PST by yesthatjallen
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: yesthatjallen

ok.. or they could just use google maps street view, but whatever


2 posted on 11/21/2024 11:58:00 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: yesthatjallen

“[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.”


3 posted on 11/21/2024 12:02:13 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TexasFreeper2009

“ok.. or they could just use google maps street view, but whatever”

I don’t think they have access to Google’s images ...


4 posted on 11/21/2024 12:25:39 PM PST by TexasGator (-11)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Where is your citation?


5 posted on 11/21/2024 12:27:23 PM PST by TexasGator (-11)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: TexasGator

6 posted on 11/21/2024 12:30:23 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: yesthatjallen

Nothing scales like reality


7 posted on 11/21/2024 12:47:01 PM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TexasFreeper2009

8 posted on 11/21/2024 12:49:21 PM PST by TexasGator (-11)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: TexasGator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_was_their_finest_hour#Peroration


9 posted on 11/21/2024 12:49:26 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Why did you change the quote?


10 posted on 11/21/2024 12:54:33 PM PST by TexasGator (-11)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: TexasGator

It’s a verbatim excerpt, my FRiend. Nothing changed.


11 posted on 11/21/2024 12:58:07 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator

Must complete the Primary Objective!

I got Shoe!


12 posted on 11/21/2024 1:17:40 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: yesthatjallen

Ha! Never did the scanning.


13 posted on 11/21/2024 1:26:08 PM PST by Skywise
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TexasGator

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


14 posted on 11/21/2024 1:27:56 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

“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.


15 posted on 11/21/2024 1:45:41 PM PST by TexasGator (-11)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: TexasFreeper2009

“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.


16 posted on 11/21/2024 1:47:10 PM PST by TexasGator (-11)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: TexasGator

I’m just trying to find what the heck is AI. At 91 I ain’t gonna find out, so make it simple.


17 posted on 11/21/2024 4:23:01 PM PST by WVNan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: WVNan
"I’m just trying to find what the heck is AI"

Artificial Intelligence.

18 posted on 11/23/2024 7:08:44 AM PST by yesthatjallen
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson