return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours ago‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robotswww.popsci.comexternal-linkmessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up1441arrow-down17
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minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·13 hours 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-213 hours 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.