Even if someone designed an awesomely sophisticated air flight search engine that knew my usual preferences and could search for me and respond to follow-up prompts, I'd probably still want to see the information displayed on a page rather than read to me for the most part.
I think this might point to an opportunity to explore hybrid interfaces that allow you to just have a conversation while still having a visual representation of everything going on.
But still agree with the sentiment here. There are applications that I cannot imagine ever wanting to interact with via a bot.
That's what I had in mind. Happy to talk to the computer but show me the results on a screen. If I'm typing in a freeform query, I'd generally just as soon say it instead. (Assuming I'm somewhere I can talk.)
