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.
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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.
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