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Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data

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383 points bookstore-romeo | 4 comments | 19 Nov 24 20:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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relyks ◴[20 Nov 24 22:26 UTC] No.42198768[source]▶
This is pretty cool, but I feel as a pokehunter (Pokemon Go player), I have been tricked into working to contribute training data so that they can profit off my labor. How? They consistently incentivize you to scan pokestops (physical locations) through "research tasks" and give you some useful items as rewards. The effort is usually much more significant than what you get in return, so I have stopped doing it. It's not very convenient to take a video around the object or location in question. If they release the model and weights, though, I will feel I contributed to the greater good.
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1. bastloing ◴[21 Nov 24 00:28 UTC] No.42199714[source]▶
The game is free, there has to be some way for them to profit, interesting to see this was it.
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2. earleybird ◴[21 Nov 24 00:59 UTC] No.42199931[source]▶
When ever it's free, it's all about the data.

I recall having a conversation circa 2004/5 with a colleague that Google was an AI company, not a search company.

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3. kortilla ◴[21 Nov 24 02:15 UTC] No.42200389[source]▶
This wasn’t it. It was from gems
4. eru ◴[21 Nov 24 03:38 UTC] No.42200859[source]▶
Search is AI. Or would have been considered AI in eg the 1980s.

The goalposts of what counts as AI are constantly moving further and further away. Simple algorithms like A* once counted as part of AI.