Pokémon Go Data ‘Adding Amplitude to War Is Obviously an Issue,’ Niantic Exec Says.

We recently published a blurb regarding a reference article in which Niantic, the company responsible for the Pokémon Go phenomenon, shared a project called the ‘Large Geospatial Model’: a kind of highly detailed, technologically interacting map of the world, built from data collected by users of the application over years of play. 

Considering the eternal need for accurate and reliable information, even more so from a geographical point of view, it is to be expected that such a resource would appeal to the world's great powers. A director of Niantic shared his thoughts on the matter, stating that he expects governments and armed forces to be willing to purchase the artificial intelligence model announced by the company - if the use case were specific to war, however, it would be ‘obviously a problem’.

At the moment, however, the project is still in its early stages - a product of this scale needs at least a few years to be functional.