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TechCrunch: Almost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber, company says
"...Uber’s chief financial officer, Balaji Krishnamurthy, told Wall Street analysts on the call that the company handled around 320 million trips and orders across Uber and Uber Eats during the week of Halloween, but only 500 Uber Eats orders were placed by an AI agent...."
https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/04/almost-no-one-uses-ai-agents-to-book-their-uber-company-says/
@plutarch I mean, I'd do that, lol. ORDERING FOOD VIA CLI!
@ai6yr And those 500 were probably done by the project staff testing their work.
@KanaMauna I was going to say, how many of those are from Uber developers 🤔
also. "hope" is a really shitty strategy for financial success.
@paul_ipv6 "Hope" is really shitty way of saying "We need to recoup the ungodly amount of money we have spent to incorporate AI agents into our ordering system" 🤭 😉 @ai6yr
500 out of 320 million isn't a lack of traction. it's statistically nonexistant.
@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr any moment now "AI" agents will take off, any moment. They will order an Uber to take their humans to the Metaverse to look at some awesome NFTs of apes.
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I have to wonder if at least some of those 500 "AI agents" were actually real people who, for whatever reason or no reason, decided to place an order by making API calls directly. I would imagine that almost no one actually orders food in that way, but I would also imagine that the number is non-zero, still.