One day in October, 26-year-old Seokjin decided to download Tapple, a popular dating app in Japan. The business consultant, who asked to go by his first name for privacy reasons, said that he wanted someone he could lean on after starting his first job in April and feeling overworked. "Around August and September I was constantly thinking, why do I have to work so much?" he says. "I wanted my life to have more of a purpose and have someone that I could spend it with and go on trips with, someone who would be on my team when things were rough -- that's why I started using the app."

The past few years have seen a massive boom in smartphone technology and applications, mainly due to the rapid evolution in artificial intelligence and related technologies. AI has managed to completely transform the user interface and experience for even the simplest mobile apps that we use on a daily basis. In today's world, half of our daily tasks are automated and performed by mobile apps that are powered by AI, and it is truly a magical time to be alive. Speaking of artificial intelligence, it is impertinent to mention that the ever-growing phenomenon continues to morph mobile apps into something entirely different. From physical learning to AI-based learning, from physical piano lessons to online lessons for piano – everything is dominated by AI.