A new Google experiment lets users ask questions and receive answers from sentences in books.
The experiment is called Talk to Books. It uses machine learning to train an artificial intelligence to get better at understanding the way humans speak and ask questions.
With Talk to Books, when a human types a question or a statement, the program’s AI browses more than 100,000 books from the Google Books library, trying to find natural sounding or logical responses.
The experiment isn’t a true search experience but rather a demonstration that shows off some of Google’s AI projects and what can be done with them. It doesn’t look for answers that are the most authoritative but rather ones that make sense conversationally.
Talk to Books is a fun tool that doesn’t give users as wide a range of answers as regular web search, yet it still gives some cool perspectives and in some cases interesting book recommendations, too.
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