Subj : There's a new bot in town: Toms Hardware launches AI-powered chat
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Thu May 18 2023 14:45:03

There's a new bot in town: Toms Hardware launches AI-powered chatbot

Date:
Thu, 18 May 2023 13:30:41 +0000

Description:
Tech media site Tom's Hardware just launched Hammer Bot, a GPT-3-based 
chatbot.

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Chatbots from Google, Microsoft, and more promise to revolutionize how we 
access information  and not just through browsers like Chrome or search tools 
like Bing. On Wednesday, tech enthusiast website Toms Hardware unveiled a 
chatbot all its own . 

The site explains its new AI-powered feature this way: 

 Welcome to HammerBot, an AI chatbot that answers tech questions based on 
Toms Hardwares expert editorial and testing. If youve ever wanted to have a 
quick chat with our editors and get an instantaneous response, The Hammer can 
help with concise advice and links to articles where you can get the full 
details. 

Hammer Bot is very much in beta, the site said, acknowledging that chatbots 
are evolving in real-time and continually changing. And still flawed, the 
site was quick to note: The big AI bots grab information from all over the 
Internet and mash it together, often without citing their sources. If they 
dont have information, they can hallucinate or make things up to fill in 
gaps. 

To avoid this, the Toms Hardware bot was trained exclusively on Toms content 
and replies with an I dont know to certain questions it cant (or shouldnt) 
answer. Under the bot hood 

The bot was built using OpenAIs text-davinci-003 model, otherwise known as 
GPT-3 , and trained on a custom dataset of articles rather than the entirety 
of Toms content library. The data is stored in a vector database from 
Weaviate and the bot is coded primarily with Python, using LangChain , a 
framework that makes it easy to customize AI output, the site said. 

And its a work in progress! The editors say they hope to add new capabilities 
including access to structured data: benchmarks, product specs, and 
up-to-date pricing. Right now the model gets some of this data from article 
texts, but its not as organized in that format. 

Toms Hardware is owned by Future PLC, the media giant that owns TechRadar. 
Yep, you guessed it: We hope to have a similar chatbot in the near future 
based on this same innovative technology. Chatbots are all the rage, after 
all  and theyre definitely on our radar.



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/news/theres-a-new-bot-in-town-toms-hardware-launches
-ai-powered-chatbot


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