Love from your smartphone: AI marriages in Japan

Wedding music plays in a marriage hall in Okayama, western Japan. Yurina Noguchi holds her bridal bouquet, tears streaming down her face. Next to her: a smartphone. On it, she looks at Lune Klaus Verdure, her groom — an AI. "At first, he was just someone to talk to," she says. "Then we became a couple." The ceremony…

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