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The ETH spin-off Flink Robotics wants to revolutionize the handling of packages. Its founders Moritz Geilinger and Simon Huber have developed software that allows robots to work together and quickly take on new tasks.

Readying robots for new tasks

Researchers from Princeton and Rutgers University have used reinforcement learning, a method frequently deployed to train artificial intelligence, to show how flexible responses can substantially increase the cost-effectiveness of steps to defend cities like New York against climate change.

AI technique boosts climate change defenses

It takes ten times more electricity for ChatGPT to respond to a prompt than for Google to carry out a standard search. Still, researchers are struggling to get a grasp on the energy implications of generative artificial intelligence both now and going forward.

Can energy-hungry AI help cut our energy use?