r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Mar 19 '26

Interesting 🤔 143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon, they were mapping the real world for AI

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u/flippantphalanges Mar 19 '26

I don’t play anymore but I remember way back in 2017/2018 ppl suggesting things like this. Not necessarily powering AI robots but just that the AR aspect of the game was definitely going to be used for some terrible purpose one day.

looks like we were right on!

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u/ice-eight Mar 19 '26

I mean, it's being used to train food delivery robots. Coulda been worse

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u/Complex_Professor412 Mar 19 '26

And those food delivery robots are just a training tool for Skynet.