Uber’s U.S. drivers and couriers have a brand new approach to earn extra cash.
The ride-hail app introduced on Thursday a brand new pilot program that may provide gig staff the chance to coach synthetic intelligence (AI) by so-called “digital duties.”
They embody easy, fast duties for staff resembling importing images, recording themselves talking of their native language, and submitting paperwork written in numerous languages—that are then fed into AI fashions. Uber already affords this for gig staff in India.
“A number of these duties are digital, which means you are able to do them out of your cellphone . . . from wherever, and on the identical time create earnings alternatives,” Sachin Kansal, Uber’s chief product officer, stated on the firm’s “Solely on Uber” occasion in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.
“Drivers have requested for extra methods to earn, even after they’re not on the highway,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi stated in an announcement to Enterprise Insider. “[We’re] giving drivers extra methods to earn throughout downtime.”
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The pilot, which permits gig staff to finish fast digital duties within the Driver app, is powered by Uber’s AI Options Group.
How Uber’s “digital duties” work
The digital duties are solely obtainable to drivers and couriers who’ve opted in. As soon as they’ve signed up, they may sometimes see invites to finish the duties within the Alternative Middle.
As soon as obtainable, customers can view the complete record earlier than they start (every process is non-compulsory)—together with an estimate of how a lot time it’s going to take and the way a lot they may earn. After the duties are accomplished, fee is added inside 24 hours.
Uber Financials
Uber Applied sciences, Inc (UBER) was buying and selling down practically 3% in afternoon buying and selling on Thursday.
Uber’s reported second quarter earnings, for the interval ending June 30, beat estimates with income of $12.65 billion (versus estimates of $12.46 billion). Earnings per share (EPS) got here in at 63 cents. On the time, the corporate additionally introduced the authorization of a $20 billion inventory buyback.
