How Pokémon Go Was Used To Create The Largest Real-World Robotics Perception Dataset In History

It has been around 10 years since Pokémon Go peaked in popularity. But there was a time when millions of people worldwide ...

Was Pokemon Go An AI Spy Tool? How The Data Was Used And Who Owns It Now, Revealed

Explore how Pokémon Go's player-generated data has been used in advanced AI mapping systems, raising questions about privacy ...
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Pokémon Go Players Helped Map the World—Now That Data Is Training Delivery Robots

Niantic’s spatial AI, built partly from optional scans submitted through its AR games, is now helping delivery robots ...

Pokémon Go players built a 30-billion-photo map that’s now training robots to deliver your pizza

How Niantic Spatial is turning a decade of 30 billion crowdsourced photos and data into the most precise urban navigation ...

Pokemon Go players have been unwittingly training robots

Pokemon Go players have been unwittingly training robots - A 30-billion-image dataset built by players over the last decade is now being used to train an AI navigation system ...
USA Today

It's not just a game. Your Pokemon Go player data is training AI map models.

The model uses geolocation information from scans players submit of real-world locations while playing Pokémon Go. A privacy expert advises users to be mindful of the data they share. Players of ...