Consumers probably think of Uber as a ride-hailing and food delivery company. But in the eyes of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber actually has a massive code base with engineers who are “virtually the creators of the company.” In fact, Uber engineers have gone as far as replacing Khosrowshahi with a chatbot that will ask him questions in preparation for meetings with top executives.
This is according to an interview Khosrowshahi gave this week Steven Bartlett’s podcast The Diary of a CEO.
“One of my team members told me that some teams had created a Dara AI, you know, so they could basically give a presentation on the Dara AI as preparation for me to give a presentation,” Khosrowshahi. said on podcast. “Because you can imagine, like, you know, by the time something comes to me, the preparation is done and a meeting of the slide decks are beautifully laid out. So they have Darius AI to fine-tune their preparation.”
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In the interview, Khosrowshahi commented on the role played by AI in the company. “It’s really changing their productivity in a way I’ve never seen before,” he said.
According to Khosrowshahi, about 30% of Uber’s software engineers are “power users” of AI tools.
“They are building the bricks that go into the system, and they are the architects who are thinking about what the system should look like,” he said.
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