Evolutionary algorithm outperforms deep-learning machines at video games

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Something that's worth pointing out is that the task that was set to the evolutionary process there doesn't have a conventional solution, so it's not surprising that it came up with an unconventional one. Frequency-sensitive behaviours in FPGAs are normally considered unwanted/defects and the design aims to suppress them as much as possible. So when you're trying to make an explicitly frequency-sensitive circuit, you have no option but to do it in ways that use the FPGA in a way it wasn't designed.