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

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.” It spins up a chatbot that knows everything about the book and can talk about it endlessly—like a bespectacled Terminator that just dropped in on your book club meeting.

Dmitry Shapiro, YouAI’s CEO, says he’s talking with a number of

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