return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robotswww.popsci.comexternal-linkmessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1295arrow-down15cross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.catechnology@lemmy.zip
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minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoYeah this is like 90% of all of Google’s business model. Captchas to train OCR or tag crosswalks, vehicles, etc. for other computer vision. GOOG-411 to train voice recognition for the Google assistant.
minus-squareparaphrand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 months agoGoogle voice only makes sense as a data play too, for voicemail data, etc. YouTube is a massive dataset. Part of their recent crackdowns on downloading tools and 3rd party apps is around keeping that data for themselves.
Yeah this is like 90% of all of Google’s business model. Captchas to train OCR or tag crosswalks, vehicles, etc. for other computer vision. GOOG-411 to train voice recognition for the Google assistant.
Google voice only makes sense as a data play too, for voicemail data, etc.
YouTube is a massive dataset. Part of their recent crackdowns on downloading tools and 3rd party apps is around keeping that data for themselves.