It's like suddenly learning how

It's like suddenly learning how to program in C++, only you have to eat the guy from tech support to see the benefits.
Genetic algorithms -- programs which are seeded, evolved, mutated, and evaluated rather than engineered -- are finding their way into software (like the game Evolva due out this month) that you and I will be using in the near future, according to FEED's Steven Johnson.
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