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> NN for image classification task

You've created your own straw man here.

> "You realize now how computationally intractable this task is on modern hardware?"

Here are the people that prove it isn't computationally intractable : https://blog.openai.com/evolution-strategies/ - but to say they've discovered a new breakthrough method is over-selling the result.

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You said: "training NNs (for any purpose) using evolution works well". I gave you an example of a purpose where it does not work well. So, let me ask you again: can you give an example of evolutionary methods that work well when applied to training NNs, other than this breakthrough by OpenAI, which only works for RL?

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