Why Read Books When You Can Use Chatbots to Talk to Them Instead?

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Why Read Books When You Can Use Chatbots to Talk to Them Instead?
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Book publishers are experimenting with chatbot editions of new titles, providing 'conversational companions' for readers.

Amazon’s virtual shelves already feature books written by artificial intelligence. One startup believes that even titles written by humans would benefit from some AI, in the form of an accompanying chatbot primed to talk about a book’s contents. YouAI, a startup that offers tools for building AI apps, recently developed an app it calls Book AI, which promises to “turn any book into an AI.

” Not bad, although it might also have noted that just as Frankenstein served as a rather dramatic, ahem, lightning rod for angst about scientific progress back in the early 1800s, today’s headlines can often hue toward runaway nightmare scenarios to the exclusion of actual day-to-day risks posed by AI.

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