Neuroplasticity in AI: How the Brain’s Adaptability Inspires Smarter Machines

“Every man can, if he so desires, become the sculptor of his own brain.” – Santiago Ramón y Cajal Imagine you wake up one morning to find your coffee machine has grown extra buttons overnight, ready to prepare new exotic brews you didn’t even know existed. Far-fetched? For your kitchen appliances, certainly—but what if your …

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AI Brains or Clever Parrots? Unpacking How LLMs ‘Reason’

Have you ever noticed how your brain effortlessly maps out the fastest route to work—or zeroes in on the murderer halfway through a mystery novel? That’s reasoning in action: the invisible yet powerful mental machinery we use to draw conclusions, make decisions, and understand the world. Now, imagine machines doing the same thing. In recent …

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Our Digital Companions – Redefining Emotional Connection in the Age of AI

In Jane Austen’s Emma, the heroine finds herself suddenly alone after her close companion marries, left with “no prospect of a third to cheer a long evening” and only her kind but feeble father for company​. Austen writes that Emma, “with all her advantages, natural and domestic, was now in great danger of suffering from …

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Unleashing the Power of LLMs: Master the Art of Prompt Engineering for Limitless Possibilities

Imagine a world where artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we interact with technology, enabling us to enhance our creativity and boost productivity across numerous fields. This dream has become a reality, thanks to the groundbreaking advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs). From writing compelling content to simplifying complex research tasks, LLMs have undeniably …

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Effortlessly Access Your Conda Environments in Jupyter Notebooks:

As a data scientist or developer, you probably use Jupyter Notebooks to streamline your workflow and interactively run your code. To manage different projects and dependencies, you likely rely on Conda environments. But what if you want to use Jupyter Notebooks with your custom Conda environments? In this blog post, we’ll walk you through a …

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Deep Blue: A review

Image Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Kasparov-29.jpg Paper: Deep Blue Authors: Murray Campbell, A Joseph Hoane Jr, feng-hsiung Hsu Introduction: Deep Blue was the chess machine (it is a powerful combination of hardware and software) developed by IBM. The machine became important in the field of AI because it was able to defeat the then World class Chess champion …

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