Well, this was wholeheartedly mixed! It was kind of beautiful, and also disappointing. I want to run out and try this myself, but it was also a waste of time. In the end, I thought maybe more would come of the experiment (in retrospect, I was definitely expecting it to be like the movie "Her"), but I learned a lot about the motivations, expectations, and pattern-matching abilities of the person who tried it out. I definitely thought the episode was worth a listen, and I've never heard of anyone else trying this. It also gave me a new appreciation for actual human beings.