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Are you aware of anyone experimenting with the automatic evolution of web pages?

For example, use genetic programming to periodically modify the page served up. Both pages are served up, A/B style, and the page which has the highest metric (eg. $ earned) survives. Repeat.

It would be interesting to see what the results are after an extended period of time.



Not quite what you're asking about, but an interesting related innovation:

http://untyped.com/untyping/2011/02/11/stop-ab-testing-and-m...


Having played with genetic algorithms before, that is a hugely interesting idea to me. You would need to take special care on the types of mutations used though. I don't think it is possible to do it well at scale, but it would be very impressive nonetheless.




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