GA are used for electronic circuit connection design (sorry, i don't the correct english name for the line printed on the circuits that connects different pins). GA are used to solve the problem of laying out them avoiding intersection. GA are used to design antennas. They are often used in travelling salesman like problems. GA and GP would be vey useful also in some other context like finding sequences of actions if only they could benefit from GPU like neural net did, but gpu aren't suitable for GA/GP and it's a pity since in GA/GP you can understand the inner structure easier than in a neural net where simply you don't know why the net took that decision.