I should point out that OpenAI put out a blog post / paper suggesting that genetic algorithms can perform similarly to backpropagation for Atari/Q-Learning task

I should point out that OpenAI put out a blog post / paper suggesting that genetic algorithms can perform similarly to backpropagation for Atari/Q-Learning tasks: https://blog.openai.com/evolution-strategies/ https://blog.openai.com/evolution-strategies/