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Yorick Wilks, a computer scientist and pioneer of natural language processing, has passed away at the age of 83. Wilks was instrumental in the development of AI tools such as Siri, Google Translate and ChatGPT. He developed the preference semantics model, a technique for representing the meaning of words and phrases by considering their context and usage in natural language texts. Wilks also served as the chief researcher of the group led by David Levy that won the Loebner prize for machine dialogue. In his later research, Wilks explored the concept of artificial companions, conversational agents designed to interact with elderly people or other isolated individuals.
