More holidaymakers are turning to AI when planning or booking their trips, according to travel association ABTA. The body found that 8% of travellers were using AI - up from 4% last year - with younger holidaymakers more likely to use the technology when planning their trips. However, AI still lagged a long way behind more established methods - such as general internet searches and asking family and friends. Overall, the number of people taking a holiday continued a recent trend of climbing back towards pre-pandemic levels, ABTA said. The travel body described the increase in customers using AI as both a challenge and an opportunity.

As developers increasingly lean on AI-generated code to build out their software--as they have with open source in the past--they risk introducing critical security failures along the way. Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow and could create more security issues than it solves. So developers draw on existing libraries--often open source projects--to get various basic software components in place. While this approach is efficient, it can create exposure and lack of visibility into software.

A fifth of GPs are using artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT to help with tasks such as writing letters for their patients after appointments, according to a survey. The survey, published in the journal BMJ Health and Care Informatics, spoke to 1,006 GPs. They were asked whether they had ever used any form of AI chatbot in their clinical practice, such as ChatGPT, Bing AI or Google's Gemini, and were then asked what they used these tools for. One in five of the respondents said that they had used generative AI tools in their clinical practice and, of these, almost a third (29%) said that they had used them to generate documentation after patient appointments, while 28% said that they had used the tools to suggest a different diagnosis. A quarter of respondents said they had used the AI tools to suggest treatment options for their patients.

Tech expert Kurt Knutsson reveals how scientists developed a method for robots to sense touch using AI and sensors. Most Americans do not believe artificial intelligence (AI) is trustworthy for election information. A poll released Thursday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and USAFacts found that just under two-thirds of Americans do not trust generative predictions produced by AI. Approximately 64% of respondents responded to the survey saying that they are not confident that election information generated by AI chatbots is reliably factual. Text from the ChatGPT page of the OpenAI website is shown in this photo.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Google," it can be tempting to click your way to self-diagnosis -- but an overload of health information can cause its own set of symptoms. "Cyberchondria," a subset of health anxiety, is described as a condition in which an individual excessively searches for health information online. While cyberchrondria may not start as a physical disease, it can cause intense levels of anxiety and fear that can negatively impact a person's health, according to Dr. Maggie Williams, a family physician in Scottsdale, Arizona, and medical director for MDLIVE Virtual Primary Care. Dr. Marc Siegel, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center and a Fox News medical contributor, said he and his colleagues used to call the condition "medical students' disease." An overload of health information can cause its own set of symptoms called "cyberchondria," or heightened health anxiety. "When you know a little, but not enough, you imagine you have everything and constantly worry," he told Fox News Digital. Although cyberchondria is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) as a formal diagnosis, it's thought to be closely related to hypochrondria, a more general heightened anxiety about one's health. In 2014, two U.K. researchers, Eoin McElroy and Mark Shevlin, created a "cyberchrondria severity scale" that measures a person's score across eight areas: compulsion, distress, excessiveness, reassurance seeking and mistrust of medical professionals. As Siegel pointed out, the condition is becoming more common over time. "The invention of the internet and then the perfection of search engines created a global hypochondria, where patients searched to find possible explanations for their symptoms," he said. "The invention of the internet and then the perfection of search engines created a global hypochondria, where patients searched to find possible explanations for their symptoms," a doctor told Fox News Digital. "It especially increased during the pandemic, when dogma abounded and everyone was suddenly an expert," Siegel added. A study published in JIMR Formative Research last year found that COVID-19 caused a spike in the condition in spring 2020, as people experienced higher levels of "cyberchondria-related distress and compulsion during the pandemic." "The invention of the internet and then the perfection of search engines created a global hypochondria, where patients searched to find possible explanations for their symptoms." One user shared experiences with cyberchrondria on Reddit: "I thought that I might see something that will ease my mind, but … it makes it all worse and worse.

Tom Newhouse, vice president of Convergence Media, discusses the potential impact of artificial intelligence on elections after an RNC AI ad garnered attention. Republicans are less convinced than Democrats that the federal government needs to impose regulations on artificial intelligence systems and are even more skeptical on whether the government is up to the task, according to a new Fox News poll. The poll of registered voters shows a noticeable gap between the two parties on the question of whether and how to regulate AI, a sign that the increasingly important issue could get hung up in politics as it advances in Washington. When asked how important it is for the federal government to regulate AI, 82% of Democrats said "very" or "somewhat," compared to 71% of Republicans. That was one of the bigger splits in a poll that found 76% of respondents saw some importance to federal regulation.

In the financial services industry, banks, insurers, asset managers and fintech companies are increasing the speed at which they deploy artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled applications, confident that AI will help them assess risk more accurately, enable operational efficiencies, and reduce costs, results from a new study by American tech firm Nvidia show. The 2023 State of AI in Financial Services report, released on February 02, 2023, draws on a survey of nearly 500 global financial services professionals that sought to understand AI trends in the sector, as well as the opportunities perceived and challenges faced by the industry. Results from the study show that the adoption of AI in the finance sector is accelerating at a fast pace, with over half of the respondents indicating having deployed three or more of the 21 different AI-enabled use cases analyzed by the survey. A fifth of respondents said they had six or more use cases in market. Accelerated adoption of AI in the sector comes on the back of increased awareness of the imperative among executive leadership teams.

Two-thirds of the respondents (67%) said they were still learning how AI works and exploring use cases and technologies. Just 15% of the respondents reported that they had achieved wide-scale implementation of AI. When asked how they would classify their understanding of AI terminology and capabilities, 45% of the respondents rated their level of understanding as beginner, 43% said intermediate, and only 12% said advanced. In addition, only 29% of the respondents said they are highly confident or very highly confident in their ability to evaluate AI-powered marketing technologies. The research found that marketers recognize the importance of AI and expect its use to grow significantly in the near future.

WIRE)--Verta, the Operational AI company, today released findings from the 2023 AI/ML Investment Priorities study, which surveyed more than 460 AI and machine learning (ML) practitioners to benchmark AI/ML spending plans across industry sectors in light of evolving technology trends, industry developments, and macroeconomic conditions. The study was conducted by Verta Insights, the research practice of Verta Inc., and found that nearly two-thirds of organizations are planning to either increase or maintain their spending on AI/ML technology and infrastructure despite economic headwinds in the broader market. "We currently are experiencing an inflection point for the AI/ML industry, with technologies like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion driving heightened interest in how companies can leverage machine learning models to significantly automate human-based activities with very innovative and game-changing capabilities. Findings from our research study confirm that organizations are continuing to make significant investments in AI/ML technology and talent, despite turbulence in the market, as they orient their business strategies around creating intelligent experiences for their customers," said Conrado Silva Miranda, Chief Technology Officer of Verta. In the research study, 31% of respondents said that their organizations would increase AI/ML spending in 2023 due to the current economic conditions, while 32% said that they would maintain 2022 spending levels for AI/ML technology and infrastructure.

The entrepreneurial disruption phase of "move fast and break things" is being replaced with a mantra of "move fast and keep up" when it comes to applying ethical frameworks and leading practices to emerging technologies, according to a new study by Deloitte. The firm's first-ever State of Ethics and Trust in Technology annual report defines emerging technologies, identifies trustworthy and ethical standards, explains different approaches to operationalizing standards, and encourages actions that can be taken in the short term. Many companies want to be on the cutting edge of emerging technologies to stay competitive and gain benefits such as improved customer experience, operational efficiencies and newly-enabled use cases, according to Deloitte. "But these technologies are often being developed at such breakneck speeds that few companies are pausing to consider the ethical implications,'' the report noted. "With great power comes great responsibility.