Now, researchers have taken the cuckoo's wont to deposit its eggs in the nests of other birds as inspiration for a new approach to engineering ... algorithms that seek out the optimal design ...

“The algorithm can find patterns that a software engineer may [not have] noticed, and is able to reproduce them in a way that would be difficult or impossible to code.” Unlike other computer ...

As a result, much of the design work was done by people, who piggybacked on the software’s organic formulations–similar to the way machine learning algorithms are used in other creative ...