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Soon, new technology may help you find unique people in Japan. The Japanese government hopes that assistive technology will lead to an increase in the number of births, writes the BBC.
Although there is currently a wide range of dating services available to singles, a planned innovation for next year in Japan will be to support services that seek to facilitate dating through artificial intelligence. Starting next year, support will be provided to municipalities that have already launched or are planning to launch MI projects.
In addition, the government is allocating another two billion yen (approximately 5.6 billion guilders) to encourage the population to have children.
All of this may be necessary because last year only 865,000 births were recorded in the island nation, which is a record low.
If no change is projected, Japan’s population could shrink from a peak of 128 million in 2017 to less than 53 million by the end of the century, with all the dire consequences of an aging society.
In Japan, by the way, IM-based dating systems already exist, but they usually look at things like income and age, and only match when they match. However, a number of other factors could be set in the new government-backed services, such as hobby and stock data.
However, Horiguchi Sachiko, a medical and sociocultural anthropologist at Temple University in Japan, believes that there are better ways to increase the birth rate than artificial intelligence. For example, he said, helping low-income youth. In fact, according to a recent report, there may be a link between low income and loss of interest in romantic relationships among Japanese young adults.
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