Pokemon Go developer Niantic is using player data to train AI that could power map-roaming robots

A blog post on the Niantic website has gained the attention of numerous Pokemon Go fans and tech-savvy folks alike due to the company’s lengthy description of its work training up a machine learning powered geospacial model through its apps.

The VPS, as explained in another Niantic blog post, is a bit of tech that better maps AR content to the real world.

The blog post in question, titled “Building a Large Geospatial Model to Achieve Spatial Intelligence” states that through Niantic’s Visual Positioning System, it has gathered a lot of data and put its geospacial model through a lot of training (thanks, 404 Media).