Less than two weeks ago, Pokemon TCG Pocket fell into hot water over the accidental use of fan art for an official card design. Maybe that's worse than tapping an AI for official promotional artwork.
An AI user has created a playable Pokemon clone using a very simple prompt and no manual actions, raising concerns about potential copyright issues caused by artificial intelligence. Pokemon is one of ...
Anthropic's AI agent Claude is trying to beat Pokémon Red. Apparently, it's no Ash Ketchum. Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures Last month, the $61.5 billion-valuated AI startup Anthropic set up a gaming ...
Niantic is building a new type of AI model that can understand and navigate the physical world. The company is training its AI on data gathered from its mobile apps, like Pokemon Go and Scaniverse. It ...
Richard is a writer and game designer living in New York City. Niantic is building a geospatial AI model using data from popular AR games like Pokemon GO. The model, called the Large Geospatial Model, ...
According to a blog post on Niantic’s official website, it is only the optional "Pokémon GO" feature called "Scan a PokéStop" that contributes to the machine learning of its AI geography model. A ...
Nothing is allowed to be wholesome, apparently. Credit: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images In 2016, Pokemon Go was about as wholesome as video games got, as it largely involved walking around ...
Niantic was still raking in hundreds of millions a year from the beloved mobile game when CEO John Hanke decided to sell its games business and pivot to enterprise AI. Why blow it all up now? Walking ...