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‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots (www.popsci.com)
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[–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I don't automatically have a negative opinion about this, I would need more information before that. Did the terms of service allow for this?

It's a fascinating case study on crowdsourcing data that is useful to this navigation technology, and reminds me of the first captchas that helped train OCR engines.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah this is like 90% of all of Google's business model. Captchas to train OCR or tag crosswalks, vehicles, etc. for other computer vision. GOOG-411 to train voice recognition for the Google assistant.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago*

    Google voice only makes sense as a data play too, for voicemail data, etc.

    YouTube is a massive dataset. Part of their recent crackdowns on downloading tools and 3rd party apps is around keeping that data for themselves.

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