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[-] banghida@lemm.ee 71 points 7 months ago

Data is always worth something, eh.

[-] sepiroth154@feddit.nl 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Anyone who has ever touched their software knows how this will go....

[-] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 9 points 7 months ago
[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 29 points 7 months ago

Make a right turn, cut through Mr Robinson's back yard.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I'm sorry Mrs Robinson! OOOOOHHHHH!!! I am for real!!!! Never meant to make your family cry, I cut through your backyard a million times!

[-] sepiroth154@feddit.nl 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And if you're having that much trouble with regular software, imagine how it would go with a model, which even capable programmers don't (always) fully understand....

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Bothers me that much of this data has been collected without explaining what its intended purpose is. All those captchas that want you to pick out cars or bikes etc, Pokemon game that wants you to scan locations for free items... It simply never occurred to me that these were actually just ways to train AI surreptitiously

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

Never? They were very clear about the first captchas being used to train OCR, way back in like 2010.

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

Every day that I play Pokemon Go, I'm aware that I'm making a Faustian bargain for motivation to take a walk in exchange for my privacy.

[-] TseseJuer@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

have fun when the "invaders" are roaming your streets and know exactly where you are because you showed them your walk for 10 years. big rip pika pika hot though amirite

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Guess i was asleep that day 😬

[-] Maiznieks@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Good luck driving via my gps drifts as i block the phone antennas to get more kilometers. If anything, nianitic is incompetent af, i played ingress for years and i know what they are "capable of".

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

What do we need this for? Not clear what it does

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

Seems to be a tool for taking an image and Geo-locating it, even in cases where other sources of data like Googles street map cars are insufficient.

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

The issue is it's going to be trained only on places people go. My understanding is that most geolocating systems are more focused on the uncommon or less traveled locations. Maybe I'm wrong, but I guess they're probably tested it out before announcing it.

[-] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Maybe they will start/already have putting pokemon in locations that they need data for to make a more comprehensive map.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Seems questionably reliable as an independent system. Maybe could help refine more traditional systems? Not sure I understand a use case for this.

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

It definitely has applications in defense/Intel spaces. Knowing where a photo was taken can be really useful info.

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

AI delivery bots maybe? It's basically an aggregate of "here's where it's possible/common to walk" so it's not useful for driving/flying AI. Also useful for marketing, knowing where foot traffic is.

The article says they're treating it as a Large Geospatial Model (like a Large Language Model), so it seems like you could use that as a predictive way to navigate between two points. With an LLM it spits out phrases based on context. The LGM would return paths based on context.

[-] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

It's strange that Niantic is doing this when google has been doing the same thing with its own street map data.

Seems weird to make a competing product when (I thought) they are on good terms.

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago
[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

It’s gonna be a bloodbath

[-] leanleft@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago
[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago
[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Knew what? That they would use the user data for profit?

Who didn't?

[-] MvPts@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Have fun with my spoofed Geolocations going 30km/h through every Building in Zaragosa

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