Conversational AI is playing an increasing role in customer service contact centres. It can greet customers, handle routine requests in a conversational manner, and more accurately route interactions to the service agents who can best assist. But when a customer reaches out to a contact centre, they are often frustrated because they have unsuccessfully tried to solve their problem online, and they expect their request to be met with empathy and urgency. Irritation can take over if the user reaches an AI bot when they need a human conversation; or if they have to wait for a human when an AI could resolve the issue more efficiently. When seeking immediate answers and information, 36% of customers choose self-service chat or a virtual agent.

The European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) recently voted in favour of Eva Maydell MEP's (BG, EPP) opinion on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. The opinion received a strong endorsement from the committee with 61 votes in favour and only two against. Seven parliamentary committees are examining the proposal and Member States are still aligning their positions; but as the French pass the EU Presidency baton to the Czechs, EU40 - the platform of young pro-European MEPs - organised a multi-stakeholder discussion with leading actors and experts in the Microsoft Centre to take stock of where we are and to assess whether the EU is striking the right balance. The European Commission unveiled its proposal in April 2021 with the aim of turning Europe into a global hub for trustworthy AI. The proposal is the first of a kind.

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Recent studies show that, 'healthcare', very niche and the personalized sector is now expanding its arm to embrace'AI strategies' on priority this journey will be a roller coaster due to unawareness of where and how AI should be used,and also how to implement it on larger & wider scales. This article will talk about various areas of AI applications with Digital technology enablement. While the COVID-19 pandemic is still in the air, one thing is certain that it had an irreversible impact on the world. The dents on digital health are no exception. This pandemic made governments and health-care providers across the world speed up the development of artificial intelligence (AI) to scale up its use in medicine, even before that medicines show significant benefits.