Artificially Intelligent boy given residency in Tokyo

An Artificially Intelligent (AI) created boy was made an official resident of Tokyo on Saturday.

The boy is named ‘Shibuya Mirai’, which means ‘future’ in Japanese. The boy is similar to a friendly and talkative seven-year-old boy and is supposed to be a first grader at an elementary school.

Though the AI created character does not physically exist, he can have text conversations with humans on LINE messaging application. The boy can reply to messages and light-hearted changes to the selfies he is sent.

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AI 'boy’ has been granted residency in central Tokyo with his very own special residence certificate. This act make him Japan’s first and probably the world’s first artificially intelligent bot to be granted a place on a real-life local registry, reported AFP.

The AI boy said that the project is aimed to make Tokyo’s local government more common to residents and let official listen to their opinions.

The ward said in a statement with Microsoft, the joint developer of the AI character, “His hobbies are taking pictures and observing people. And he loves talking with people... Please talk to him about anything.”