We are increasingly liking the recommendations provided by artificial intelligence. In a short time, the consultations we make have positioned themselves as one of the best ways to hit the target. Now we have spoken with her to find out which book we have to read right now without waiting any longer.
The pile of books that we have on the shelf grows more and more. We buy many because we like the author and we don’t realize that we already have accumulated two or three titles by the same writer. Or maybe we don’t read much because we don’t know what to read. In any case, let the AI be the one to clear your doubts about what to read next.
The best book for AI
The number of books that exist is gigantic: more than 150 million. Among all of them, only a small part becomes of global importance. And even at the local level many will not have much impact. Therefore, choosing a single book is an almost impossible mission. However, we trust the AI, because we already know that it is useful for more than summarizing texts or making photographic montages.
To begin with, when I asked him about that essential book, what he has done has been to give us a selection by genre that is excessively long. It divides it into six categories: fiction, science fiction and fantasy, nonfiction and popularization, mystery and suspense, self-help and personal development or historical novel. In each of the categories it has incorporated four different titles, many of them really popular. But we have continued to ask him to reach a more concrete conclusion.
Looking for a must-have title
As we told you, artificial intelligence has selected a wide series of books. The next thing we have asked you is to select one of the recommendations from each of the categories to reduce the list and thus reach a more specific conclusion. That brings us to the answer that we can share with you in the screenshot below.
It is important that you take into account that, as you can see, we wanted to make the selection of books counting on the presence of novels by Spanish authors. But it is still quite impressive that the presence of The Lord of the Rings has already been lost in this first sieve, a novel that was in the previous selection of science fiction and fantasy that the AI had made. And although it is something that bothers us, we are not going to tell artificial intelligence what it has to answer us either.
As you can see in the following screenshot, other books that have fallen by the wayside include highly popular titles such as The Da Vinci Code, 1984, The Great Gatsby, Dune, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Silence of the Lambs or books scientists from authors like Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan.
After that we only had those six books: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, Sapiens: From Animals to Gods by Yuval Noah Harari, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Power of now by Eckhart Tolle and The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. We already knew which one we would have chosen among them, but the opinion of the AI still remained to be known.
The next thing was to make another elimination and that he was left with only three. His choices were the following: One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Name of the Wind and Sapiens: From Animals to Gods. We cannot be more disappointed with the removal of The Pillars of the Earth, but the opinion of the AI must be respected. We can tell you that we have asked her in various ways and it is clear that in all cases she felt compelled to include Ken Follett’s book in the selection due to our pressure. So we have preferred not to opt for it. We went to the last phase of the study of the best book according to the AI and we found this result.
Do you agree? Is One Hundred Years of Solitude the book that everyone should read as soon as possible because it is essential? The book was originally published in 1967 and has since garnered numerous awards, recognition, and sales. Translated into more than 40 languages and with more than 30 million copies sold, there is no doubt that it is a book to be reckoned with. Have you read it? If you haven’t, it might be a good idea for these last weeks of summer.
