oh great
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Jason Koebler
Pokemon Go players have been unwittingly mapping the entire world to train a geospatial AI model whose most obvious use cases are for robotic navigation and possibly the military
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Pokemon Go is just a Pikachu filter added on top of Ingress.
No bro, it wasn't unwitting - the Pokemon GO company just didn't think to sell personal tracking data to AI companies until just now.
"Pokemon GO Creators capitalize on player base because Capitalism is Opportunistic" is the headline here
Ha. Take that, Niantic.
Apparently it's LIDAR mapping as many homes of western folks as possible for the great invasion 😂
I, for one, welcome my future Chinese overlords, especially as my house is so clean 😂
I do also speak some Mandarin and Shanghai-ese so I'll give you good cover ☺️
They're building an underlying architecture similar to Google Maps. Instead of active scanning, they crowd-sourced data collection.
"We" have always been the product companies "sell" to advertisers.
Do you know the paper size for the print edition of the onion (the spread)? I have to get a frame for my sickos guy.
“Card game” to “AI Military Intelligence Scheme”