Uber Employees Have Built an AI Clone of Their CEO To Practice Presentations Before the Real Thing (businessinsider.com) 30
An anonymous reader shares a report: Some Uber employees have built an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi -- internally dubbed "Dara AI" -- and have been using it to rehearse and fine-tune presentations before delivering them to the actual Khosrowshahi, he revealed on a recent podcast.
Khosrowshahi said a team member told him that some teams "make the presentation to the Dara AI as a prep for making a presentation to me," and that the bot helps them adjust their slides and sharpen their delivery. Asked by the podcast host whether employees might eventually show Dara AI to the board, Khosrowshahi laughed but noted that AI models still can't process and act on new information the way executives do. "When the models can learn in real-time, that is the point at which I'm going to think that, yeah, we are all replaceable," he said.
Khosrowshahi said a team member told him that some teams "make the presentation to the Dara AI as a prep for making a presentation to me," and that the bot helps them adjust their slides and sharpen their delivery. Asked by the podcast host whether employees might eventually show Dara AI to the board, Khosrowshahi laughed but noted that AI models still can't process and act on new information the way executives do. "When the models can learn in real-time, that is the point at which I'm going to think that, yeah, we are all replaceable," he said.
They should just have AI present to Dara AI (Score:2)
Easiest Cost-Savings Ever (Score:4, Insightful)
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... and how this move could introduce great savings, or just split the CEOs wage to the workers.
Re:Easiest Cost-Savings Ever (Score:4, Interesting)
The average CEO makes something on the order of 281 times the typical employee.
I would hope as we explore genAI and the possibilities white collar work, boards of directors would take a hard look how much payroll it might save to get rid of some of these under performers.
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The average CEO makes something on the order of 281 times the typical employee.
I would hope as we explore genAI and the possibilities white collar work, boards of directors would take a hard look how much payroll it might save to get rid of some of these under performers.
Boards of directors are too busy worrying about how easy it will be to replace them with AI.
Talk about an overpaid group of seagulls in management who feed a CEO buddy system paid for by corporate write-offs.
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What's next after that? Replace shareholder boards with AI too? hehehe.
Of course "executives" aren't replaceable (Score:5, Insightful)
Uh huh. I'd argue that the executive role is significantly more replaceable by AI than the janitor. So, time to go get yourself a mop and learn how to clean toilets, Mr. Exec.
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You guys weren't here in the 90s and early 2000 when H1Bs were starting to come into tech. People would joke about how the CEO job oughta go to an H1B worker but they'd never do it. Well now 2026 and (according to the list I asked Gemini to make) the CEOs of Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM (which was a major tech company from the 50s to the 90s), Fedex, Albertsons, and even Chanel are Indians.
AI will run most companies. Decision making will be AI driven.
2035 - AI is able to replace every white collar job.
2040
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Why do you call probabilistic models for AI? Why are you ignoring physics, energy, and entropy?
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Speak for yourself, you haven't seen me working from home doing boring tasks
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Battery swapping systems are in use in several parts of the world, mostly Asia, for trucks and taxis. There's no reason it can't be applied to construction equipment. In fact there are fully automated and fully electric open pit mines in China already.
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Battery swapping systems are in use in several parts of the world, mostly Asia, for trucks and taxis. There's no reason it can't be applied to construction equipment.
That still means the bots need to leave the spot they are working, move to a swap location, swap, and come back to where they were every hour or two (or less, depending on how much motion is required for the job). And that's a lot of packs. Two per if you can fully recharge faster than they discharge. In reality probably need 3 per robot.
In fact there are fully automated and fully electric open pit mines in China already.
With battery powered humanoid robots? And to be clear that's what I was referring to. I even called out specialized larger robots as an alternative in some phases of con
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I thought you meant the large equipment, such as excavators, cranes, dump trucks, cement mixers and the like. For the smaller humanoid bots I would not see an issue with another bot which just drove around and swapped batteries as the humanoids needed. Probably more efficient than the humanoid going to the station and back, since the battery swap is 1-2 minutes. We do need better batteries though.
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Your timeline is in the wrong order, AI and robotics have already replaced hoards of factory jobs, especially in China. Amazon, Uber, Waymo and others are replacing delivery drivers already. Retail is automating slower, but Amazon and others are experimenting with replacing cashiers, there are shelf stocking bots in testing now, and there are several systems for unloading trucks and managing inventory already. Automated excavators and cement pouring and smoothing machines are already in use, and automate
Skynet (Score:3)
So they made an AI that literally wants to enslave people by paying them just enough pennies to stay alive. I hear a lot about Skynet but this is surely the beginning of the end.
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Uhh. Wrong thread.
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Bad signs for Uber (Score:4, Interesting)