TOKYO – Japan plans to boost its tumbling birth rate by funding artificial intelligence matchmaking schemes to help residents find love.
From next year it will subsidize local governments already running or starting projects that use AI to pair people up.
Last year the number of babies born in Japan fell below 865,000 – a record low.
The fast-greying nation has long been searching for ways to reverse one of the world’s lowest fertility rates.
Boosting the use of AI tech is one of its latest efforts.
Next year the government plans to allocate local authorities 2bn yen ($19m, £14m) to boost the birth rate, reported AFP news agency.
Japan’s population is projected to fall from a peak of 128 million in 2017 to less than 53 million by the end of the century. (BBC)
