http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clegoues/docs/legoues-icse09.pdf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clegoues/docs/legoues-icse09.pdf "Automatically Finding Patches Using Genetic Pro

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clegoues/docs/legoues-icse09.pdf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clegoues/docs/legoues-icse09.pdf "Automatically Finding Patches Using Genetic Programming ... We introduce a fully automated method for locating and repairing bugs in software" http://dijkstra.cs.virginia.edu/genprog/ http://dijkstra.cs.virginia.edu/genprog/ Though I think the author was talking more about coding up a neural net, where it can be said that the net learns the features itself, and optimizes a loss function, without much reliance on a superviser.