Introduction to Talk to Books
Talk to Books is a book search tool launched by Google in 2018. It is based on artificial intelligence technology and can analyze questions entered by users and find answers in corresponding books.
Currently, Talk to Books experiment has ended in June 2023. If users want to continue using it, they can find similar functions in the Google language model Bard.
How to Use Talk to Books
We introduce this function through some cases provided on the Talk to Books website. We choose the question: What is Machine Learning? Talk to Books lists answers to this question in some books. We can see that in the first book, the definition of machine learning is highlighted. However, the content of the first book is related to medicine, and the application of machine learning is mainly in medical diagnosis.
Let’s look at the content of the second book. The second book clearly gives the definition of machine learning. The content comes from books about the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the business field. In contrast, this book may be the answer we want to find more.
In addition to looking at the specific definition, we can also click on the link to enter the specific interface of the book, browse the context related to this sentence, and judge whether this book is the ideal book we need. This artificial intelligence-based content query method is different from traditional book search. We can still get valid answers without knowing the specific content of many books. It saves time and simplifies the search steps.
Summary
As an intelligent query tool, Talk to Books can help users quickly locate the content they want in a large number of books. In fact, this kind of function is already used in many programs such as shopping, email, maps, etc.
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