It does strike me as a very clever solution in search of a problem.
If I want to book a haircut at three o'clock on Friday, that's fine. But if that's not available and they can offer me four o'clock Saturday instead, how does the robot know whether I'm interested and/or available? Either it has to ask me - in which case, what's the bloody point in not doing it myself - or it has to know my diary inside out, including all the bits I didn't fill in because it's obvious I'm doing something else.
And what is this fascination with this sort of application anyway? Is there a whole cadre of researchers/programmers out there who are absolutely opposed to people talking to each other?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
