This document discusses using genetic algorithms to help a salesman solve the traveling salesman problem of planning the shortest route to visit all cities. It introduces the traveling salesman problem and explains how genetic algorithms could help by simulating evolution to iteratively find better routes. Specifically, it would initialize a population of routes, select the fittest for reproduction, crossover routes to create new offspring, occasionally mutate routes, evaluate all routes, and repeat the process until a termination condition is met, such as reaching a set number of iterations. This evolutionary approach allows finding acceptable solutions within time constraints compared to traditional brute force methods for this complex optimization problem.