Over 500 million people downloaded Pokemon Go in 2016 totally unaware of what they really signed up for… They thought they were catching Pikachu but their data was actually building one of the largest real world AI training datasets ever created Every time a player scanned a PokeStop or walked past a gym, their phone captured GPS coordinates, camera angle, time of day, weather conditions, and movement data. 30 billion images. Millions of locations. Centimeter level accuracy. Mow Niantic is using all of it to navigate autonomous delivery robots through city streets where GPS can’t even keep you on the right side of the road. The greatest crowdsourced AI project in history was disguised as a mobile game starting a full decade ago