This seems a little similar to Genetic Programming, from John Koza. In my very old McGraw-Hill book (“C++ Power Paradigms”, McGraw-Hill 1994. Genetic Algorithm

This seems a little similar to Genetic Programming, from John Koza. In my very old McGraw-Hill book (“C++ Power Paradigms”, McGraw-Hill 1994. Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, and Constraint Programming), I had an example using a genetic algorithm for synthesizing a recurrent network. I had lunch with John Koza, he said that it was an interesting idea but that it wouldn’t scale - and he was correct about that.