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In artificial intelligence

"In artificial intelligence, an evolutionary algorithm..." An evolutionary algorithm should not be a subset of artificial intelligence specifically, since you can evolve unintelligent things (ex. theo jansen's mechanical leg for strandbeest). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.238.139.213 (talk) 04:37, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think what is meant is that the evolutionary algorithm is itself a simple form of artificial intelligence. The fact that it has many applications, such as refining hull shapes in boat racing, doesn't make it not artificial intelligence. -- Another Stickler (talk) 06:06, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comparison with biological evolution

We might want to add a blurb about how the connection with actual biology is more in the way of inspiration and analogy than anything rigorous - as I recall, biological evolution is optimizing against a moving target (an important difference). --Gwern (contribs) 22:17 17 June 2007 (GMT)

If using co-evolution, you may be able to say it's optimizing on a moving fitness landscape. The sorts of selection such as gladitorial tournament selection (you pick a couple of genes, pit them against each other, usually the winner reproduces deleting the loser) makes your fitness depends heavily on what's around you. And yes it's probably not rigorous right now, and people are trying to duplicate the genotype-phenotype distinction in biology and other things. I can't say whether it's completely loosely based right now. Obscurans 22:10, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's accurate to say that "an evolutionary algorithm is not intended to be an accurate simulation of an actual biological evolutionary process." We could add something like this. Dcoetzee 07:12, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]