MONOCHROME AI to Help you Find Answers to your Horological Questions

Today, we’re launching a new service to enable you to find answers to your (horological) questions faster and more easily. The new MONOCHROME AI chat will answer your questions, similar to ChatGPT, however, based entirely on all MONOCHROME content of the past 20 years.

Since we’ve seen the rise of ChatGPT, Gemini and the likes, getting proper answers to any questions you might have has never been easier. Until recently, we used to get a long list of links to web articles as a response to any search, and similarly, on MONOCHROME, the search results were a list of links to our articles. This required you to click links, read through an article and hope that these articles provide the actual answer to your question. The AI will answer your questions, like you’re used to from ChatGPT or Gemini and the likes, and link to a few relevant articles, if you want to read more about the topic.

The new MONOCHROME AI is the first of its kind, offering the same functionality as you’re (by now) used to from ChatGPT or Gemini. It wasn’t easy to develop, as the MONOCHROME data set is rather large, spanning 20 years of coverage of watches and the watch industry. Canadian developer Evan Borodow was up for the challenge to overcome the substantial challenges of working with large datasets to incorporate our entire archive!

Evan Borodow first developed Armin AI for the independent watch brand Armin Strom, which does more or less the same, albeit on a MUCH smaller data set. The Armin AI is accessible for authorised dealers via WhatsApp, enabling them to obtain instant and accurate answers to virtually any relevant question. The challenge for developing something similar for MONOCHROME was the immense data set, something that most big tech companies said was impossible.

FAIR WARNING

• Like every AI, there might be some hallucinations, so be aware! However, we tested this for months, making constant improvements, so by now it’s virtually hallucination-free. We hope that the MONOCHROME AI will enhance your learning experience about the magical world of mechanical watches!
• The latest articles of the day are not included yet. AI indexes new articles at midnight, so the next day, they can become part of the answers you will be served.
• If you have a pop-up blocker… too bad, the AI icon won’t be visible and thus you can’t use it.

Oh, just as a side note, we do not use AI to write articles! This is strictly forbidden for our team of writers, as we only publish stories written by our team of experts.