Yorick Wilks obituary

Computer scientist and pioneer of natural language processing – teaching AI to communicateThe artificial intelligence tools we use today, including Siri, Google Translate or ChatGPT, would not exist if pioneers such as the computer scientist Yorick Wilks had not helped to establish the field of natural language processing: teaching computers to interpret, generate and translate human language. Crucial to Wilks’s research and career progression was his experience in Stanford, Californ