I don't think they are dead. Their popularity for NNs is much lower for sure.
In general, GAs can theoretically solve any problem (if you can formulate a fitness function), given long enough time. Because of that, I think they will always have some use cases.
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Reply to [D] Are Genetic Algorithms Dead? by TobusFire
I don't think they are dead. Their popularity for NNs is much lower for sure.
In general, GAs can theoretically solve any problem (if you can formulate a fitness function), given long enough time. Because of that, I think they will always have some use cases.