Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Illinois has become the first state to enact legislation banning the use of AI tools like ChatGPT for providing therapy. The bill, signed into law by Governor J.B. Pritzker last Friday, comes amid growing research showing an increase in people experimenting with AI for mental health as the country faces a shortage of access to professional therapy services. The Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act, officially called HB 1806, prohibits healthcare providers from using AI for therapy and psychotherapy services. Specifically, it prevents AI chatbots or other AI-powered tools from interacting directly with patients, making therapeutic decisions, or creating treatment plans.

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In Australia, a new camera system could be the solution to the problem of people using their mobile phone while driving. Using the mobile phone while driving is surely one of the most dangerous driving offences. In the era of individualism and the'attention economy', it only makes more sense that a problem such as this one persists. People are addicted to their phones. The writer of this article is addicted to his phone.

From military-grade drones to sensor systems and experimental technology, the EU and its members have spent hundreds of millions of euros over the past decade on technologies to track down and keep at bay the refugees on its borders. Poland's border with Belarus is becoming the latest frontline for this technology, with the country approving last month a €350m (£300m) wall with advanced cameras and motion sensors. The Guardian has mapped out the result of the EU's investment: a digital wall on the harsh sea, forest and mountain frontiers, and a technological playground for military and tech companies repurposing products for new markets. The EU is central to the push towards using technology on its borders, whether it has been bought by the EU's border force, Frontex, or financed for member states through EU sources, such as its internal security fund or Horizon 2020, a project to drive innovation. In 2018, the EU predicted that the European security market would grow to €128bn (£108bn) by 2020.

For the past two years, the LA-based voice actor has run a sort of reverse call centre, deliberately ringing the people most of us hang up on – scammers who pose as tax agencies or tech-support companies or inform you that you've recently been in a car accident you somehow don't recall. When Okumura gets a scammer on the line, she will pretend to be an old lady, or a six-year-old girl, or do an uncanny impression of Apple's virtual assistant Siri. Once, she successfully fooled a fake customer service representative into believing that she was Britney Spears. "I waste their time," she explains, "and now they're not stealing from someone's grandma." Okumura is a "scambaiter" – a type of vigilante who disrupts, exposes or even scams the world's scammers.

Our Morning Risk Report features insights and news on governance, risk and compliance. Adobe's AI ethics committee, launched two years ago, has been able to review new features for potential bias before those features are deployed, Mr. Rao said Wednesday at The Wall Street Journal's Risk & Compliance Forum. The committee is made up of employees of various ethnicities and genders from different parts of the company, including legal, government relations and marketing. "It takes a lot of people across your company to help figure this out," he said. "Sometimes we might look at it and say there's not an issue here," he said, but getting a diverse group of people together can help identify issues product developers might miss.

The social-media platform will flag possibly offensive comments before they're posted and ask the poster to reconsider. The context: Online abuse has always been a complicated issue because of its scale and nuance. What counts as worthy of censorship is a perpetual debate: filter too much and it infringes on self-expression; filter too little and it creates a hostile environment. Add to that the complexity of different languages, cultures, and norms, and the challenge gets really unwieldy. Artificial unintelligence: That's why social-media platforms like Facebook have turned to artificial intelligence to help them sort through the sheer volume of posts and comments.

The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

Google has removed one of the most important parts of image search. The company has got rid of the button to "view image" on its own. That means that people can no longer easily navigate to the picture they'd searched for – or download it for later use. It means that people will only be given the option to see the picture on the page that hosts it. That means clicking into the website and complying with its rules, rather than making it easy for people to look at only the picture.

If you squeeze the iPhone X it will stop people from stealing it, Apple has said. The phone has security settings that stop the built-in facial recognition from being used if the two buttons on the side are press, according to head of software Craig Federighi. The revelation was part of an email the Apple executive sent to a developer, who asked a series of questions about the Face ID technology. The emails reveal more about the technology, which won't be released to the public until 3 November and so has only really been discussed by Apple. Mr Federighi added to those concerns during the introduction event, when he went to use the facial recognition tools and the phone wouldn't actually let him in, leading to worries that they aren't as good as Apple had made them out to be.