Pokémon Go is driving a $4 billion spinoff. Those game maps could be AI gold.
Source: Live Mint The maker of the wildly popular mobile game Pokémon Go is making a sharp turn toward a new frontier in AI research. Pokémon Go players have spent years voluntarily uploading location data from their smartphones coupled with images and video of their surroundings. Using this raw data, Niantic, which develops Pokémon Go…