Genetic Programming (GP) and the holy grail of AI

The quest for *Automatic Programming* is the holy grail of artificial intelligence. The dream of having computer programs write other useful computer programs has haunted researchers since the nineteen fifties. GP is about applying evolutionary algorithms to search the space of computer programs. To paraphrase Arthur Samuel of 1959 and argue that with this method it is possible to "tell the computer what to do without telling it explicitly how to do it".
The main hypothesis is that GP is not only the first instance of true automatic programming but also creative to such an extant that it competes with humans in solving very hard problems and therefore the solutions produced by GP can sometimes be called inventions". However most important and intriguing issue our present time is the provocative questions raised concerning definitions and claims of human competitive performance, - particularly whether we have already passed an important milestone in the history of AI - automatic programming.