Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World

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the World</h1> <div class="byline"> <div class="byline__author"> <a href="/author/emanuel-maiberg/" title="Emanuel Maiberg"> <img class="lazyload byline__author-image" data-src="/content/images/size/w100/2023/08/headshot-1.jpg" alt="Emanuel Maiberg" src="/content/images/size/w30/2023/08/headshot-1.jpg" /> <span>Emanuel Maiberg</span> </a> </div> <span class="byline__details-separator">·</span> <time datetime="2024-11-19" class="byline__date"> Nov 19, 2024 at 10:13 AM </time> </div> </div> <div class="post-hero__excerpt">Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a “Large Geospatial Model” that can navigate the real world and power robots.</div> </div> <figure class="post-hero__image"> <img class="lazyload" data-srcset="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1471014706828-7f1b12e6d88b?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wxMTc3M3wwfDF8c2VhcmNofDF8fHBva2Vtb24lMjBnb3xlbnwwfHx8fDE3MzIwMjg5MTV8MA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=300 300w, 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announced that it is using data collected by its millions of players to create an AI model that can navigate the physical world. </p><p>In <a href="https://nianticlabs.com/news/largegeospatialmodel?hl=en&utm_source=www.garbageday.email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=right-wing-social-networks-don-t-work&_bhlid=4528b8205f253061720f30633407d8060dc88335"><u>a blog post</u></a> published last week, first spotted by <a href="https://www.garbageday.email/p/right-wing-social-networks-don-t-work?ref=404media.co"><u>Garbage Day</u></a>, Niantic says it is building a “Large Geospatial Model.” This name, the company explains, is a direct reference to Large Language Models (LLMs) Like OpenAI’s GPT, which are trained on vast quantities of text scraped from the internet in order to process and produce natural language. Niantic explains that a Large Geospatial Model, or LGM, aims to do the same for the physical world, a technology it says “will enable computers not only to perceive and understand physical spaces, but also to interact with them in new ways, forming a critical component of AR glasses and fields beyond, including robotics, content creation and autonomous systems. As we move from phones to wearable technology linked to the real world, spatial intelligence will become the world’s future operating system.”</p><p>By training an AI model on millions of geolocated images from around the world, the model will be able to predict its immediate environment in the same way an LLM is able to produce coherent and convincing sentences by statistically determining what word is likely to follow another. </p> </div> <div class="post-access-cta p-lg text-center paid"> <div class="paid"> <h2>This post is for paid members only</h2> <div class="description">Become a paid member for unlimited ad-free access to articles, bonus podcast content, and more.</div> <a class="btn btn--brand m-b-lg" href="/membership/">Subscribe</a> </div> <div class="members"> <h2>Sign up for free access to this post</h2> <div class="description">Free members get access to posts like this one along with an email round-up of our week's stories.</div> <a class="btn btn--brand m-b-lg" 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