Uber is no longer just about rides and delivery. It has created a new department to hire gig workers to help with some of the company’s AI model development work.
Scaled Solutions was born out of the company’s unique needs for data annotation, testing, and localization, and now provides these services to companies in retail, automotive and autonomous vehicles, social media, consumer apps, generative AI, manufacturing, and customer support. Ready to serve. . Initial customers include Aurora Innovation, which develops self-driving software for commercial trucks, and Niantic, a game developer building 3D maps of the world.
Chris Brummitt, the company’s senior director of communications for Asia Pacific, said in an email that Uber looks for a variety of skills in new gig workers. “Depending on the task, some may require language skills, some may require programming, and others may require no special skills.”
