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That sounds great. If it can't be a reservation app, then at least give me an audio interface to it. Chatting with humans in their noisy, stressed restaurant environment for a low level data entry operation isn't an experience I'm clinging to.

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If I call a restaurant and an AI answers, I'm going to call somewhere else.

I just don't like talking to machines.

I'll happily tap through the app, though.

But what if AI is better than humans, it will provide you the best service and out perform even the best human in the universe. then? would you still decline this AI ?

What if brussel sprouts tasted like Twinkies?

It can be jarring talking to an AI though. At first you think you're talking to someone very friendly, and then the impact that the entire conversation is artificial hits you. It feels like you're being lied to because that friendliness is coming from nowhere real.

This is a good point, because the "friendliness" of the host being paid to be friendly to you is completely genuine.

they're usually not though, just polite enough to get the job done and you can sense the real connection through that.

Similarly, when someone is being overly friendly to you, it feels strange. Now imagine a robot that does nothing but that automatically.

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