Google's new Artificial Intelligence search lets you 'talk to books'

With Artificial Intelligence this fantasy could possibly come true. Google has introduced'Talk to books' which allows a reader to communicate with a book using a machine learning-trained algorithm that gives answers to questions with relevant passages from human written text. Developed with machine learning, it uses'natural language understanding' of words and phrases. "With Talk to Books, we provide an entirely new way to explore books. You make a statement or ask a question, and the tool finds sentences in books that respond, with no dependence on keyword matching. In a sense you are talking to the books, getting responses which can help you determine if you're interested in reading them or not," said Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering at Google Research in a statement Once you type a question into Talk to Books, the tool searches all the sentences in over 100,000 books to find the ones that respond to your input.