Mastodawn

Pokémon Go players thought they were catching Pikachus.

They were actually building the nervous system for robot civilization.

500M humans. 30B images. Zero consent forms.

Exclusive: Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.

MIT Technology Review

@geeknik Gosh, I wish folks had warned us about this stuff… oh, I don’t know… maybe a decade ago?

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You were so ahead of your time man, that speech is amazing!

@futureisfoss @aral @geeknik It's less that he was ahead, more that most of us are late.