Genetic Algorithm in Artificial Intelligence - The Math of Intelligence (Week 9)

Evolutionary/genetic algorithms are somewhat of a mystery to many in the machine learning discipline. You don't see papers regularly published using them but they are a really fascinating subfield and in this video, we're going to use a genetic algorithm to improve invaders in a space invaders game!

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[antonylawler]

Genetic algorithms are proving ideal for production scheduling.

I'm pretty much always getting stuck in a local maximum, but the algorithms are relatively simple, and the results are still better than humans can achieve in the same time space.

[ozgeozcelik]

in a coffee shop, listening to this with headsets on, also reading probabilistic computing, is awesome cool !

[automata]

Thanks for doing a video about GENETIC ALGORITHM. Needed these from long time.

[andymiller]

This is dope. Great work here. I think this is your best video.

[SolvingOptimizationProblems]

Interesting application of genetic algorithm. Thank you for the cool explanation.

[DigitalWerkz]

I think you did an excellent presentation! My math seems to have gone up a notch just by listening. I'm not a fan of games but I suppose it would present new angles on NN's. Your explanation speed was great. It helped me to absorb more. Thanks! :-)

[klaudialustig]

I like how the Youtube home page suggested this video to me together with "How Inbreeding screws up your Genes!" by Seeker. Seeker is great btw, despite often using clickbait titles.

[damienlancry]

Very entertaining and very interesting as always! Thanks Siraj! can t wait for the big stuff coming up :)

[lucav]

Cool project! I think you have the best channel with this topic.

[freediugh]

Really cool video, Siraj. Love how you keep things interesting with your personality, jokes, and memes! Constructive feedback: audio was a bit sharp at places with some possible bounceback from the room. Try placing that sound foam stuff, it might help. Either way, nice video with great content.

[nickellis]

Cliffhanger!!! For me hyped for the Siraj Raval season finale in December XD

[MWorks]

Amazing!! keep on going man!! ...you rock!

[masoudmasoumimoghaddam]

Thank you siraj for your tutorials
You're a perfect teacher.
Will you probably cover TD-learning and Monte carlo methods in your videos?

[tejassb]

It'll be awesome to see you at PyData Delhi !!

[anony]

"because thats what we do...python" WOOT WOOT

[inthequestforlove]

Hi Siraj,
This is my first time commenting your videos but definitely not first time I watch them. So thank you so much for spreading and representing your ideas in such a nice way. 
I have question: the genetic algorithm is introduced as a classification method introduced in my data mining textbook [Data mining concepts and techniques, 3rd Edtion], but I don't get it. How do you think this can be related to classification methods?

[edexnorth]

Why am I laughing :D *thanks for improving the sound quality*

[jerryplayz]

BTW - Im using Python 3 - So I had to fix like 4 lines of code to make it work for Python 3 - And install some modules

[MalSatori]

Hey Siraj, have you considered talking about Eureqa at all?

[EaglesXsandOs]

Survival of the fittest does not refer to "brute physical strength" as you alluded to -- it's their reproductive success.