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by jmmcd 445 days ago
> in genetic programming the goal is to find/optimize dataset to fit given algorithm

No. Possibly you're confused between GAs and GP, a common confusion. In GP, the goal is to find an algorithm - in a real programming language, not as weights - to optimise an objective function. Often that is specified by input-output pairs, similar to supervised learning.

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Correct.