Talk:Genetic algorithm

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the word use on this page is not nearly close to Simple English! Blonkm (talk) 15:17, 18 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Very true, but at the same time Simple English alone cannot adequately deal with technical topics. Having said that, this particular page is not a good example of what we can do. Macdonald-ross (talk)

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I would say that this article gives a false impression of genetic algorithms. Genetic algorithms are heuristics, which are mostly used for optimization problems. Start with an inital solution that is bad, and using some well defined rules, improve the solution until you are satisfied with the result. The mechanisms used for checking how good a solution is (and ranking a number of solutions, to pick those that form the next iteratuion step/generation) is inspired by natural selection/evolution. The AI used in games may give the impression to be clever, and to become more clever over time, but it will not use genetic algorithms. Look at the EnWP article, and compare theirs to ours to see that we are pretty far off the mark. As an example, one could use a genetic algorithm to find the best form of a car door (with respect the the wind)--Eptalon (talk) 15:50, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]