From Bard to ChatGPT to Google's new search, AI chatbots are becoming increasingly popular, and Tom's sister site, Tom's Hardware, is also dipping its toe in the water by introducing its own chatbot, HammerBot. helps Tom's Hardware visitors search articles on the site and find answers to questions about PCs, peripherals, components, and anything else Tom's Hardware covers.

So how does it work?

HammerBot was developed using OpenAI's text-davinci-003 model, aka GPT-3: you ask HammerBot a question, and the server will query the dataset and display the results.

If you would like to try it out, here is a link to Tom's Hardware Hammerbot.

Unlike a typical chatbot like Bard, Hammerbot is limited to what it has learned from Tom's Hardware. So if you try to ask it how many different kinds of cats there are in the world, or who would be a good lead singer for Van Halen, it might say it doesn't know, or it might not be able to answer your question.

If you ask a question such as "What is the best raspberry pie?", Hammerbot will show you the answer along with some links to related articles in Tom's Guide and, if applicable, links to purchase that product.

Keep in mind that, like all chatbots, Hammerbot is still very much in its infancy, so answers may not be completely accurate. However, Tom's Hardware is working on improving the answers to make it a more useful tool for readers in the future. Ultimately, our goal is to be able to provide you with the best advice when buying a new computer or upgrading an existing setup. Please keep trying it out and let us know what you think.