Considering the daily occurrences within the corporation that’s Uber, the stakes are getting higher and higher across. If you are working for Uber and you find yourself doing a presentation with the CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, it’s best to come prepared, or you’ll be fired.
But, if your preparations are eating a lot to gain energy before the lecture, or gaining charisma like “The Sims” in front of the mirror, then you are not gearing up enough.
The key to acing that demonstration with Khosrowshahi is to use and leverage artificial intelligence.
Ridesharing media are talking about this news of some Uber workers using the “AI twin of the CEO” to rehearse those nerve-wracking demos before meeting with the boss face-to-face.
The technology is named Dara AI.
“One of my team members told me that some teams have built a Dara AI, so that they basically make their presentation to the Dara AI as a prep for making a presentation to me,” Khosrowshahi stated on one of the podcasts he guested on. “Because you can imagine, by the time something comes to me, there’s been a prep and a meeting, and the slide deck has been beautifully honed. So they have Dara AI to tune their prep.”
Khosrowshahi did this interview amidst the vast adoption of AI tools in workplaces, such as Uber, wherein 90 percent of the coders are now into AI, a huge number.
However, Uber’s CEO is also aware of the wide range of concerns that these AI tools and technologies might completely replace the workforce. But he buckled up after realizing they actually won’t.
“It becomes more of an orchestration job versus a manual writing job, but the job will still be there,” he further noted on the podcast. “And my attitude is if my average engineer became 25% more efficient, which we haven’t gone there yet, I’m going to hire more engineers because I want to go faster there. There’s still lots of unsolved problems that we haven’t solved.”
The use of AI to rehearse high-stakes demonstrations and lectures shouldn’t be frowned upon.
Human resources magazine The HR Digest won’t pass by square one to point out that a high-stakes demonstration is a high-stakes demonstration, and that it’s your position and your salary that are at stake.
“A public presentation isn’t a simple task, to stand up and talk in front of an audience of people! Many people fear public speaking and situations when they have to face and open up their thoughts and suggestions to a crowd… Practice and preparation are the keys to public speaking. One needs to prepare the presentation and the topic on which they would impart information. Practice speaking in front of the mirror and tone up the vocabulary is also a great way to conquer public speaking,” wrote The HR Digest correspondent Diana Coker.
In other words, you must exert the right effort to ace and nail that high-stakes demo. If there’s a need to think out of the box, go for it.
"And if you’re a part of that change, at least you can have some say as to how that change imprints on society and imprints on the real world. And so for me, I’m leaning in,” Khosrowshahi went on saying.