Google's AI language software named Parsey McParseface in honour research boat row

It was a public engagement exercise that turned into a national row after a public poll to name a new British research vessel saw the name Boaty McBoatface get the most support. But Google has had a cheeky dig at the humourless officials in the British government who objected to the name by calling its latest artificial intelligence software Parsey McParseface. The technology firm, which has just become the world's largest company, has released software that uses sophisticated machine learning to analyse the linguistic structure of language. Parsey McParseface uses sophisticated machine learning algorithms to analyse linguistic structure of sentences to help computers to understand how human languages are constructed. An example of of how the software decodes the sentence'I booked a ticket to Google' is pictured It forms part of an open-source neural network aimed at training computers to understand how human languages are put together so they can be processed. It announced the English version of this system is called Parsey McParseface in a blog that outlined how it hopes the software will transform artificial intelligence.