Genetic algorithms are a mysterious sounding technique in mysterious sounding field--artificial intelligence. This is the problem with naming things appropriately. When the field was labeled artificial intelligence, it meant using mathematics to artificially create the semblance of intelligence, but self-engrandizing researchers and Isaac Asimov redefined it as robots. The name genetic algorithms
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