Google’s Appetite for Training Data

A placeholder post – I’ll try to remember to add to this as and when I see examples of Google explicitly soliciting training data from users that can be used to train its AI models…

Locations – “Popular Times”

For example: Google Tracking How Busy Places are by Looking at Location Histories [SEO by the Sea] which also refers to a patent describing the following geo-intelligence technique: latency analysis.

A latency analysis system determines a latency period, such as a wait time, at a user destination. To determine the latency period, the latency analysis system receives location history from multiple user devices. With the location histories, the latency analysis system identifies points-of-interest that users have visited and determines the amount of time the user devices were at a point-of-interest. For example, the latency analysis system determines when a user device entered and exited a point-of-interest. Based on the elapsed time between entry and exit, the latency analysis system determines how long the user device was inside the point-of-interest.