Japan grants residency to AI bot resembling 7-year-old boy
An artificial intelligence bot resembling a seven-year-old boy was on Saturday granted official residency of Japan. The virtually existing boy named Shibuya Mirai, developed jointly by Microsoft, has become Japan's first AI bot to be granted a residency. Shibuya, supposed to be a first grader at an elementary school, can have text conversations with humans on the LINE messaging app.