Uber Technologies Inc.’s gig-economy workforce now includes programmers. The company is expanding beyond its rideshare roots to enter a hot new market: helping other businesses outsource some of their artificial intelligence development to independent contractors.

Bloomberg reports that Uber has started farming out independent contractors for data-labeling services as well as coders-for-hire.

Through its 'Scaled Solutions' division, Uber is expanding its AI initiatives to include Canadian gig workers, offering new jobs in the fast growing field.

Uber is expanding its fleet of gig workers and creating a new category: AI annotation and data labeling. The ride-hailing company has started hiring contractors for a new AI and data labeling division called Scaled Solutions.