Oh, get over it! Talking to AI is no weirder than talking to your dog

"Ohhh, you've got a new collar? Good boy! Do you want to go for a walk? I should have been so embarrassed saying these words. I was talking to a dog, which obviously didn't understand what I was saying, and not surprisingly, gave no reply at all; yet I thought nothing of it, and the other people around me thought the interaction (such as it was) was perfectly normal. No one gave me a second glance.