Google announced today, April 13, 2018, a new experimental publicly available technology called Talk to Books, which lets you ask questions in plain-English sentences to discover relevant information from more than 100,000 books, comprising 600 million sentences.
For example, if you ask, “Can AIs have consciousness?,” Talk to Books returns a list of books that include information on that specific question.
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