Tribute to Max Clowes

Max's comment remains relevant to a great deal of 21st Century AI research in machine vision (i.e. up to 2014 at least), focusing on training machines to attach labels as opposed to understanding structures (I would now add "and processes involving interacting structures"). One of the points he could have made but nowhere seems to have made, is that natural vision systems are mostly concerned with motion and change, including change of shape, and change of viewpoint. The emphasis on static scenes and images may therefore conceal major problems e.g.