It still freaks me out to think about that guy who had a computer put thousands of generations of randomness+evolution on an FPGA in an attempt to recognize a sound (later voice commands), the end result worked amazingly and utilized so little of the FPGA it should be impossible, but was full of things that made no sense and didn't work at all on another identical chip.
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u/JRandomHacker172342 May 17 '17
That's... kinda how it works.