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."
Last week, Niantic announced plans to create an AI model for navigating the physical world using scans collected from players of its mobile games, such as Pokémon Go, and from users of its Scaniverse app, reports 404 Media.
All AI models require training data. So far, companies have collected data from websites, YouTube videos, books, audio sources, and …
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