Battling with GA-Joe

For 20 years I´ve been advocating soft, bottom-up, massively parallel computing techniques and waging a war on top-down, serial, control-freak thinking. Yet, just lately, I´ve found myself becoming increasingly disdainful of genetic algorithms and other evolutionary software techniques. What´s happening-have I become a traitor to my cause? I hope not; evolution undoubtedly works. I´ve used it many times out of academic interest and more than once against genuinely difficult, practical problems. In fact, it´s partly because it works that I have such a problem with it. I don´t like what evolutionary research is doing to the field of artificial life. The author discusses the latest directions of artificial life