Niantic is building a ‘geospatial’ AI model based on Pokémon Go player data

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Niantic has announced that it’s building a new “Large Geospatial Model” (LGM) that combines millions of scans taken from the smartphones of players of Pokémon Go and other Niantic products. This AI model could allow computers and robots to understand and interact with the world in new ways, the company said in a blog post spotted by Garbage Day.
The LGM’s “spatial intelligence” is built on the neural networks developed as