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I believe AI has an opportunity to achieve a true breakthrough over the coming decade by at last solving the problem of reading natural language text to extract its factual content. In fact, I hereby offer to bet anyone a lobster dinner that by 2015 we will have a computer program capable of automatically reading at least 80% of the factual content across the entire English-speaking web, and placing those facts in a structured knowledge base. The significance of this AI achievement would be tremendous: it would immediately increase by many orders of magnitude the volume, breadth, and depth of ground facts and general knowledge accessible to knowledge based AI programs.
Watchbore’s Watchspeak Dictionary of Devilish Definitions is the result of profound research into the language used by watch brands to describe their products. The author, a notorious mesmerist, has conducted an in-depth analysis of the many thousands of press releases, brochures, books and catalogues that constitute watchmaking’s unsung annual contribution to the paper and pulp industry, to bring you this seminal work of unique scholarship that rips apart the veil obscuring the sinister Mafia controlling the lucrative trade in highly addictive timepieces by exploring the hidden meanings behind the heavily coded words and expressions of their secret language. Falling into a deep coma induced by this ordeal and aided by a bottle of Albanian snake-oil (one part battery acid, three parts distilled roof thatch, one scorpion) the author has dreamed up an inspired insight into a subject of truly jaw-dropping tedium.
