I wrote my MSc thesis on Genetic Algorithms in 1998 and I've been waiting for the time when they become popular. There is a lot of discussion going on about the

I wrote my MSc thesis on Genetic Algorithms in 1998 and I've been waiting for the time when they become popular. There is a lot of discussion going on about the need for "explainable models" and I'm quite surprised that it's not considered trivial that e.g. Genetic Programming builds computer programs that are actually models. Explainability is of course harder but how much closer can you get to building models automatically?