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For Tech’s Sake · March 26 · 39 min

Pokémon Go to train an AI

Pokémon Go collected 30 billion street-level image scans from its players, and now its creators are using that data to help train delivery robots. This prompted Kelly and Elaine to discuss the many ways human labour contributes to AI training, whether we are aware of it or not. *** Good things we recommend *** >> Humanitix ticketing >> Gravity Climbing Centre >> For Tech’s Sake Live! >> Svenska Dagbladet’s investigation into Meta’s AI training *** More from us *** Kelly’s Substack: kellysrubbish.substack.com FTS blog: for-techs-sake.ghost.io FTS TikTok: fortechssakepod FTS Instagram: fortechssakepod FTS Bluesky: fortechssakepod.bsky.social Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Pokémon Go collected 30 billion street-level image scans from its players, and now its creators are using that data to help train delivery robots. This prompted Kelly and Elaine to discuss the many ways human labour contributes to AI training, whether we are aware of it or not. 


*** Good things we recommend ***

>> Humanitix ticketing  

>> Gravity Climbing Centre  

>> For Tech’s Sake Live!  

>> Svenska Dagbladet’s investigation into Meta’s AI training  


*** More from us ***

Kelly’s Substack: kellysrubbish.substack.com

FTS blog: for-techs-sake.ghost.io 

FTS TikTok: fortechssakepod

FTS Instagram: fortechssakepod

FTS Bluesky: fortechssakepod.bsky.social

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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