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"Novel Cells" are combinations of existing operators. It's entirely true that these are combinations that humans haven't (and probably wouldn't) come up with. I don't want to underplay this. "It's similar to hyperparameter search" makes it sound like it isn't interesting or novel, which is untrue. I completely believe it is a revolutionary way to build software (so much so that I quit my job, raised funding and are w…
Okay I see what you're saying and I completely agree.
You maybe interested in their most recent paper and blog post from today: https://research.googleblog.com/2018/03/using-evolutionary-a...