Andrei Karpathy recently suggested that AI could enhance e-book reading with interactive features. Amazon may already be considering this for Kindle e-books. The company is looking for applied scientists to improve the reading and publishing experience.
Andrej Karpathy, an AI pioneer and co-founder of OpenAI, believes that AI will significantly improve the way people read books. Amazon may already be thinking about how to do this with its Kindle e-book business.
In this week’s series of posts on X, Karpathy proposed building an AI application that can read books alongside humans, answer questions, and generate discussion about the content. He said it would be a “huge hit” if Amazon or another company developed it.
Amazon’s latest job postings suggest the tech giant may be doing just that.
Amazon is hiring a senior applied scientist for its Book Content Experience team who can “leverage advances in AI to improve the reading experience for Kindle customers,” the job posting states.
The goal is to “unlock capabilities such as book analysis, enrichment, curation, moderation, translation, transformation, and generation based on content structure, functionality, intent, composition, and publisher details,” it added.
This role will focus on the reading experience as well as the broader publishing and distribution sector. The Amazon team wants to “streamline the publishing lifecycle, improve digital reading, and enable book publishers to grow their business on Amazon through innovative AI tools and solutions,” the job posting says. It is written in
3 stages
Amazon has identified three major stages in the book lifecycle and believes that AI can improve each stage.
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The first stage is the publishing part where the book is created. The second is the reading experience, where AI helps build new features and “expressions” in books, helping to increase reading “engagement.” The third stage is “Reports” that help improve “Sales and”. “Grow your business,” the job posting said.
An Amazon spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
“I love this idea.”
Based on the responses to Karpathy’s X post, there seems to be a huge demand for this type of service.
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison wrote at the bottom of the post that having to build this AI functionality yourself is “a pain,” adding: “It would be great if it was super streamlined.” .
“Love this idea,” wrote Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.
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