Web pages have 'come alive and started breeding [Via Telegraph.co.uk]

Interesting article on the english newspaper The Telegraph's website about artificial intelligence & web design.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&xml=/earth/2008/04/16/sciweb116.xml

Excerpt:
For two decades, computer scientists have played around with evolutionary software that can gradually evolve and mutate to carry out a task efficiently, or hone the design of a wing, robot or whatever, without the need for a programmer to get involved.
Web pages have 'come alive and started breeding'
A grouping of some of the sites with human controlled design properties or genetic design evolution

Now these techniques are being used to allow web sites to keep themselves up to date and to adapt to the latest fads and fashion, reports New Scientist.

Not only are they quicker to evolve than possible with human intervention, they offer the chance to come up with new ways to organise material in the web that work best for users.