Evolutionary algorithms are a type of machine learning, so yes. Machine learned vision, speech, NLP, etc. outperform heuristic methods and those are just the re

Evolutionary algorithms are a type of machine learning, so yes. Machine learned vision, speech, NLP, etc. outperform heuristic methods and those are just the recent advances. A random forest can easily outperform a hand-made decision tree—and this is the important part—if it is set up correctly and you use a sufficient quantity of high quality data. Linear models have also been used for decades because they work.