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Why We Do Not Evolve Software? Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms
1Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, J.B. Speed School of Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
Abstract:
In this article, we review the state-of-the-art results in evolutionary computation and observe that we do not evolve nontrivial software from scratch and with no human intervention. A number of possible explanations are considered, but we conclude that computational complexity of the problem prevents it from being solved as currently attempted. A detailed analysis of necessary and available computational resources is provided to support our findings.
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