>Then Newton assumed his second law and law of gravity, invented calculus, and used the three to derive the ellipses. That's why we think that Newton was one of the greatest of all scientists. The computer program is suggesting that it is hoping to automate such work; ROFL.
Exactly. Most of the solution is spoon-fed into the algorithm in the form of the fitness function and the terminals. The actual work done by the learning mechanism is trivial, non-generalizable and scales exponentially.
I don't even think that the researchers are overoptimistic in this case. They are simply being dishonest. The shortcomings of this line of research are obvious to anyone who's spent a few days with evolutionary computation.
Exactly. Most of the solution is spoon-fed into the algorithm in the form of the fitness function and the terminals. The actual work done by the learning mechanism is trivial, non-generalizable and scales exponentially.
I don't even think that the researchers are overoptimistic in this case. They are simply being dishonest. The shortcomings of this line of research are obvious to anyone who's spent a few days with evolutionary computation.