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Research from the MIT Media Lab found that people's brain connectivity can decline by as much as 55% when using ChatGPT for tasks compared to not using it.
A study by Possibility Sciences found that gamma wave activity, an indicator of cognitive effort, dropped by approximately 40% when people used AI.
According to its CTO Praveen Napali, 99% of engineers at Uber use AI tools.
At Uber, over 70% of pull requests are attributed to local or cloud-based AI agents.
Engineers at Uber have built more than 2,500 agent skills for use across the software development lifecycle.
Uber created a program called 'Agentic Pods' where approximately 30 AI-proficient engineers were paired with business domain experts for two-week sprints to automate workflows.
Uber's 'Agentic Pods' program reduced the time required for capital allocation across 150 cities from 15 hours to 30 minutes.
Uber's 'Agentic Pods' program reduced the time to generate financial pacing reports from 2 days to 10 minutes.
Uber's 'Agentic Pods' program reduced the time for marketing web quality assurance from 2 weeks to 50 minutes.
Through its 'Agentic Pods' program, Uber converted 9,000 manual support workflows into a self-service automation system.
Uber's CTO, Praveen Napali, concluded that the most significant benefits of agentic AI are realized by rethinking entire workflows rather than automating individual tasks.
Uber is creating a dedicated team to scale its 'Agentic Pods' program and further integrate AI into its business operations.