The whole idea of conversational agents is really awesome, but wow. When would I, as a single junior high teacher, have time to put together such a fabulous database of possible answers and questions? I would very much like to try to utilize this type of virtual help down the line, but for the time being, it would have to be something someone else has already designed.
I think it would be cool to try these with students and have them talk to each other. I would be curious to see how the conversations would go in that type of a setting; especially if we could have a class that knows I will read them and a class that knows I will not (even though I would) to see the discrepancies in conversations. I'm actually surprised no one has done this before.