I think there are few problems were a couple extra assumptions that could make much more efficient methods work (not NNs necessarily of course) don't hold. I'm not sure there exist problems where genetic algos outperform other methods, disregarding problems where only genetic algos work.
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Reply to [D] Are Genetic Algorithms Dead? by TobusFire
I think there are few problems were a couple extra assumptions that could make much more efficient methods work (not NNs necessarily of course) don't hold. I'm not sure there exist problems where genetic algos outperform other methods, disregarding problems where only genetic algos work.