Artificial intelligence has now begun to find applications in the world of entertainment. "Sai Chan" is an AI-based service that creates unique illustrations of faces on demand, giving results in just 0.03 seconds that required weeks of human work. Millions of Sai Chan faces have been used in anime and game productions. At the other end of the scale is a joint human-AI project to create a new work "by" Japan's most famous cartoonist, Tezuka Osamu, who passed away decades ago. In everything from story to style, the resulting graphic novel could easily have come straight from Tezuka's own pen.

VIDEO BY MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF JAPAN