The ridiculous thing is that doodle.com already solved this problem in a much less sexy way - just click the time you want. Problem solved in 10 seconds (vs minutes with this dumb bot).
In the future, will "I thought it was a computer program behind the interface" be something like "I was just following orders"?
The problem with x.ai is that it attempts to replicate the annoying experience of dealing with someone's idiot secretary, not that it's text.
Fast forward another 3 - 7 years and users will be wondering at the marvels of a chatbot where one can simply click on the picture of the action they'd like it to perform! Perhaps entire menus of actions will be presented, in horizontal or vertical strips inside the chat interface... these actions will of course be represented by hieroglyphs expertly designed to convey just what they do and no more, to as cross-cultural an audience as possible. Maybe we'll call them icons or something.
You mean like the current functionality of WeChat, Telegram, Kik and FacebookM?