Google's Talk to Books: is the future of AI just a rambling pub bore?

Talk to Books lets you ask whole questions, and pulls up a list of responses from 100,000 books in the Google Books database. In theory, this is incredible. We know the internet is a trash can of terrible people and misinformation – a kitten clutching a cat-print edition of Mein Kampf and aggressively selling you maxi dresses. Books are portals to the greatest minds of recorded time. Why ask Jeeves when you can ask PG Wodehouse? They're sure to know more than Reddit.