Frank Rosenblatt, associate pro fessor of neurobiology at Cor nell University, died here yes terday in a boating accident. It was his 43d birthday. He lived in Brooktondale, N. Y., an Ithaca suburb. An originator of perception theory, he had developed an experimental machine that could be trained to identify automatically objects or pat terns such as letters of the al phabet. The instrument was an electromechanical device con sisting of a sensory unit of photo cells that viewed the pat tern shown to the machine, as sociation units that contained the machine's memory and re sponse units that displayed vis ually its pattern‐recognition re sponse.

Aaron Hertzman's Viewpoint "Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do," (May 2020, p. 45) makes excellent points as to why it is very unlikely that computers will ever replace artists. While I don't think he quite stated such, it appears to me that he may be of the opinion that replacement of (natural) intelligence (of human beings) with artificial intelligence is very unlikely. Most, if not all, of the endeavors we are addressing are based on digital technology, and possibly cannot replace analog entities. It is unfortunate, however, that with the hype these days, people are either unaware of reality, or simply ignoring reality, with undesirable consequences. I like to cite a voicemail transcription I received recently.