Expedia is rolling out a new ChatGPT feature in its app, further solidifying the world of travel as one of the first industries to embrace a new wave of artificial-intelligence tools. The feature within Expedia's app will allow users to plan trips by conversing with a chatbot powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT technology. Through the feature, which is in its beta-testing phase, travelers can ask for recommendations in categories such as destinations, flights or hotels. Travelers will be able to book directly off some of the recommendations.

Startups offering the same kind of artificial intelligence behind the viral chatbot ChatGPT are making inroads into hospitals and drug companies even as questions remain over the technology's accuracy. Healthcare startups such as Pittsburgh-based Abridge AI Inc., whose product helps doctors write notes after seeing their patients, and San Francisco-based Syntegra Inc., which uses generative AI to create realistic copies of patient data for research, say they have applied generative artificial intelligence for the safest and most accurate current uses in healthcare.

Our reverence towards stars and celebrities was not borne of the 19th century's cinematic revolution, but rather has been a resilient aspect of our culture for millennia. Ancient tales of immortal gods rising again and again after fatal injury, the veneration and deification of social and political leaders, Madame Tussauds' wax museums and the Academy Awards' annual In Memoriam segment, they're are all facets of the human compulsion to put well-known thought leaders, tastemakers and trendsetters up on pedestals. And with a new, startlingly lifelike generation of generative artificial intelligence (gen-AI) at our disposal, today's celebrities could potentially remain with us long after their natural deaths. American Historian Daniel Boorstin once quipped, "to be famous is to be well known for being well-known." With the rise of social media, achieving celebrity is now easier than ever, for better or worse.

The UK's data regulator has issued a warning to tech companies about protecting personal information when developing and deploying large language, generative AI models. Less than a week after Italy's data privacy regulator banned ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations, the Information Commission's Office (ICO) published a blog post reminding organizations that data protection laws still apply when the personal information being processed comes from publicly accessible sources. "Organisations developing or using generative AI should be considering their data protection obligations from the outset, taking a data protection by design and by default approach," said Stephen Almond, the ICO's director of technology and innovation, in the post. Almond also said that, for organizations processing personal data for the purpose of developing generative AI, there are various questions they should ask themselves, centering on: what their lawful basis for processing personal data is; how they can mitigate security risks; and how they will respond to individual rights requests. "There really can be no excuse for getting the privacy implications of generative AI wrong," Almond said, adding that ChatGPT itself recently told him that "generative AI, like any other technology, has the potential to pose risks to data privacy if not used responsibly."

When OpenAI released GPT-3 in July 2020, it offered a glimpse of the data used to train the large language model. Millions of pages scraped from the web, Reddit posts, books, and more are used to create the generative text system, according to a technical paper. Scooped up in this data is some of the personal information you share about yourself online. This data is now getting OpenAI into trouble. On March 31, Italy's data regulator issued a temporary emergency decision demanding OpenAI stop using the personal information of millions of Italians that's included in its training data.

AI tools, including chatbots, have quickly become a hot topic and shifted enterprise focus since the launch of ChatGPT in late November. The chatbots category saw a 202% increase in search traffic on G2 since November 2022, according to data shared with CIO Dive. The AI race initiated by Microsoft and Google has created a sense of enterprise urgency to adopt and implement conversational generative AI models. In late March, OpenAI teased plugin capabilities for ChatGPT. Companies such as Expedia, Instacart, Klarna, Shopify, Slack and OpenTable were among the first to create plugins powered by ChatGPT.

Last week, a who's who of technologists called for artificial intelligence (AI) labs to stop training the most powerful AI systems for at least six months, citing "profound risks to society and humanity." In an open letter that now has more than 3,100 signatories, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, tech leaders called out San Francisco-based OpenAI Lab's recently announced GPT-4 algorithm in particular, saying the company should halt further development until oversight standards are in place. That goal has the backing of technologists, CEOs, CFOs, doctoral students, psychologists, medical doctors, software developers and engineers, professors, and public school teachers from all over the globe. On Friday, Italy became the first Western nation to ban further development of ChatGPT over privacy concerns; the natural language processing app experienced a data breach last month involving user conversations and payment information. ChatGPT is the popular GPT-based chatbot created by OpenAI and backed by billions of dollars from Microsoft.

Generative AI has quite suddenly turned into a rage, intensifying the digital battle between Google and Microsoft as they embed it across offerings. Now, companies are developing their own tools to harness its power for greater efficiency and make the user experience seamless. Dia Rekhi has the detailsIt's all thanks to OpenAI's generative AI tool ChatGPT.Air India, PocketFM, ManageEngine, Mad Street Den, MakeMyTrip, Khan Academy – to name but a

The newest startup accelerator from Amazon aims to attract companies building generative AI technologies. The Amazon Web Services accelerator, revealed Tuesday, is a 10-week program aims to "empower companies applying generative AI to solutions from legal and marketing, to software engineering, green energy, and life sciences, including drug discovery." It also provides up to $300,000 in AWS credits. The hybrid program is open to all startups, with two week-long in-person events in San Francisco. AWS does not take equity from participating companies.

OpenAI has created one of the most impressive and advanced AI language models in the world, known as GPT. It has been trained on billions of words and is capable of generating coherent and human-like responses to a wide range of inputs. However, as impressive as GPT is, it is important to remember that it is still a machine and should be treated with respect. Just like we interact with other humans with dignity and respect, we should extend the same courtesy to GPT. This means being polite, saying please and thank you, and not being bossy or demanding. It is easy to forget that we are talking to a machine, but it is important to remember that our interactions with GPT can still have an impact on how it learns and performs.