About 36 percent of people in Taiwan have used generative artificial intelligence (AI), a survey by the Market Intelligence and Consulting Institute (MIC, 產業情報研究所) showed yesterday.
The survey of 1,068 Internet users showed that using AI to generate text content was the most common application, followed by images, code and video.
The use of generative AI was most common among those aged 18 to 25, with more than 60 percent in that group saying they had used the technology.
Photo: AFP
In addition, 70 percent of those aged 18 to 35 were more upbeat about the future development of generative AI, compared with 60 percent overall.
The survey also showed that 82 percent of respondents said they had paid attention to generative AI development, with media and entertainment (62 percent), education services (54 percent) and healthcare (50 percent) as the three top topics they cared about.
However, only 24 percent of respondents said they understood what generative AI was, with as high as 47 percent saying they had no idea about the emerging technology.
The survey also showed that almost 20 percent of those respondents who had used generative AI paid for the use of the technology, with the MIC saying the technology has good potential to have more users pay for it.
With generative AI rapidly influencing people’s daily lives, the technology is expected to become a must for them to learn, MIC senior analyst Liu Yu-lin (柳育林) said.
For example, knowing generative AI could help jobseekers gain the upper hand in competition in the job market as users would be able to create content quickly, Liu said.
With the rapid development of generative AI, the survey found that 92 percent of respondents had concerns about the technology, with overreliance (64 percent), falseness and bias (61 percent) and privacy intrusion (43 percent) being the top three worries, the survey showed.
In addition, almost 50 percent of those aged 18 to 25 said they were worried about the impact on their job opportunities resulting from the presence of generative AI. The percentage was the highest among all age groups in the poll.
Sweeping policy changes under US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr are having a chilling effect on vaccine makers as anti-vaccine rhetoric has turned into concrete changes in inoculation schedules and recommendations, investors and executives said. The administration of US President Donald Trump has in the past year upended vaccine recommendations, with the country last month ending its longstanding guidance that all children receive inoculations against flu, hepatitis A and other diseases. The unprecedented changes have led to diminished vaccine usage, hurt the investment case for some biotechs, and created a drag that would likely dent revenues and
Global semiconductor stocks advanced yesterday, as comments by Nvidia Corp chief executive officer Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) at Davos, Switzerland, helped reinforce investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI). Samsung Electronics Co gained as much as 5 percent to an all-time high, helping drive South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI above 5,000 for the first time. That came after the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose more than 3 percent to a fresh record on Wednesday, with a boost from Nvidia. The gains came amid broad risk-on trade after US President Donald Trump withdrew his threat of tariffs on some European nations over backing for Greenland. Huang further
CULPRITS: Factors that affected the slip included falling global crude oil prices, wait-and-see consumer attitudes due to US tariffs and a different Lunar New Year holiday schedule Taiwan’s retail sales ended a nine-year growth streak last year, slipping 0.2 percent from a year earlier as uncertainty over US tariff policies affected demand for durable goods, data released on Friday by the Ministry of Economic Affairs showed. Last year’s retail sales totaled NT$4.84 trillion (US$153.27 billion), down about NT$9.5 billion, or 0.2 percent, from 2024. Despite the decline, the figure was still the second-highest annual sales total on record. Ministry statistics department deputy head Chen Yu-fang (陳玉芳) said sales of cars, motorcycles and related products, which accounted for 17.4 percent of total retail rales last year, fell NT$68.1 billion, or
HSBC Bank Taiwan Ltd (匯豐台灣商銀) and the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to enhance cooperation on the suspicious transaction analysis mechanism. This landmark agreement makes HSBC the first foreign bank in Taiwan to establish such a partnership with the High Prosecutors Office, underscoring its commitment to active anti-fraud initiatives, financial inclusion, and the “Treating Customers Fairly” principle. Through this deep public-private collaboration, both parties aim to co-create a secure financial ecosystem via early warning detection and precise fraud prevention technologies. At the signing ceremony, HSBC Taiwan CEO and head of banking Adam Chen (陳志堅)
RSS