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8mo ago

Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World

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Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World

It's always about the data.

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8mo ago

Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World

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Niantic always announced itself as a data company.
Um are we sure we want this data? Weren't there some people who walked into traffic and fell down hills playing Pokémon Go?
- Soon we’ll find delivery robots trying to pull some amazing stunts, all thanks to the sacrifices of some daring Pokemon Go players. Good times ahead 🍿
  
  StUnt jUMP FaiLeD
- Tesla will buy them next week
- Iirc a lot of people also taped their device to ceiling fans and stuff to get steps (to hatch eggs maybe? Idk I never played it)
  So we’ll have it directing people into circles for hours!
Gonna end up having GPS telling me to drive into someone's backyard because Pokemon Go put a Charizard in there.
It'll be interesting to see a Waymo or Tesla FSD follow the path of a few Pokémon Go spoofers through buildings or directly across a field.
- Not sure how they'll manage the straight up teleportation I used to do. Live rural, definitely went to the beach 100km away daily lmao.
  
  The modern day spoofing apps are really quite impressive. Teleportation or time travelling generally gets you an account strike fairly quickly, but some of the cleverer automatic walking functions are really quite cool.
They've been collecting this data for over a decade and are just now starting to figure out what to do with it.
- Nah, they've always been selling it as map data. And I still 100% believe the NSA is involved
  
  Hah wouldn't that be something.
  Tbh they don't need Niantic to do this. They can collect that info straight from phones. Back doors go brrrr (is that meme still relevant?)

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