What Is Crowdsourced AI Training? A Complete Plain-English Guide to How Pokémon Go Players Spent Years Building Robot Navigation
Niantic revealed that over 30 billion images collected through Pokémon Go player scans now power a robot navigation system operating in major cities worldwide. The PokéStops players visited for a decade were strategically placed to map urban environments for AI training. Here is what every tech user needs to understand about how this happened and why it matters.