Uber’s U.S. drivers and couriers have a brand new solution to earn more money.
The ride-hail app announced on Thursday a brand new pilot program that may provide gig staff the chance to coach artificial intelligence (AI) by way of so-called “digital duties.”
They embrace simple, quick tasks for staff corresponding to importing images, recording themselves talking of their native language, and submitting paperwork written in several languages—that are then fed into AI fashions. Uber already provides this for gig staff in India.
“Numerous these duties are digital, which means you are able to do them out of your telephone . . . from anyplace, and on the similar time create earnings alternatives,” Sachin Kansal, Uber’s chief product officer, said on the firm’s “Solely on Uber” occasion in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.
“Drivers have requested for extra methods to earn, even once they’re not on the street,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an announcement to Enterprise Insider. “[We’re] giving drivers extra methods to earn throughout downtime.”
The pilot, which permits gig staff to finish fast digital duties within the Driver app, is powered by Uber’s AI Solutions Group.
How Uber’s “digital duties” work
The digital duties are only available to drivers and couriers who’ve opted in. As soon as they’ve signed up, they are going to often see invites to finish the duties within the Alternative Heart.
As soon as obtainable, customers can view the complete checklist earlier than they start (every activity is non-obligatory)—together with an estimate of how a lot time it’s going to take and the way a lot they are going to earn. After the duties are accomplished, cost is added inside 24 hours.
Uber Financials
Uber Applied sciences, Inc (UBER) was buying and selling down almost 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.
