I agree so much with this post that I thought it would be so obvious that no one would even write it down... I mean... are actual people really planning to use

I agree so much with this post that I thought it would be so obvious that no one would even write it down... I mean... are actual people really planning to use this feature? Because it is a horrible idea in my view to delegate our social conversations to a robot. When I saw it, as a CS researcher myself, I thought "this is really great tech" as a concept, but I wouldn't even consider using it for anything else than curiosity/testing purposes. The idea of automation is automating things we don't want to do, talking to friends is definitely something I want to do myself. What will be the next thing, a robot that has sex in our place? OTOH I'm curious as to where this will lead in the future... smart replies replying to smart replies and generating an entire conversation between two people without them even reading it? Telling your robot "Hey, robot, I want you to find me a guy between ages 25 and 30 for a date tonight, he should be dark-haired and like dogs" and the robot interacting with other robots until it finds someone compatible? That sure would be handy for some shy people :)