Artificial intelligence is one of the world's fastest-developing fields of study, and Google AI tools have already surpassed our expectations of the human brain-like capabilities of AI technology. Having created a groundbreaking "parsing" program, new Google AI tool Parsey McParseface could detect lies and eliminate problems of human language with an artificial intelligence language program. Google AI recently stunned the world upon releasing its AI poetry program, which uses a technique called recurrent neural network language model (RNNLM) to write classical, authentic, poetry touted as capable of "making a Vogon proud." The latest AI development as premiered by Google is a language parsing tool -- an artificial intelligence program capable of sorting through passages of human language and detecting inconsistencies in rhetoric and prose -- dubbed Parsey McParseface. Google's AI language tool was given the McParseface name when, 18 months into the program's development and still unable to think of a suitable title, Google developers named the sophisticated AI tool as a tongue-in-cheek reference to the viral poll that almost saw a polar research vessel called Boaty McBoatface.

Last week, Google released Parsey McParseface, a funny name for a state-of-the-art tool aimed at one of the most difficult problems in artificial intelligence. For all that computers have accomplished in the past five years, from winning on "Jeopardy!" to defeating a Go grandmaster, they are still terrible at figuring out what people are saying. Language is one of the most complex tasks that humans perform. That's why there has been such a hullaballo over McParseface, which is pretty much a glorified sentence diagrammer. McParseface does what most students learn to do in elementary school.

Last week, Google released Parsey McParseface, a funny name for a state-of-the-art tool aimed at one of the most difficult problems in artificial intelligence. For all that computers have accomplished in the past five years, from winning on "Jeopardy!" to defeating a Go grandmaster, they are still terrible at figuring out what people are saying. Language is one of the most complex tasks that humans perform. That's why there has been such a hullaballo over McParseface, which is pretty much a glorified sentence diagrammer. McParseface does what most students learn to do in elementary school.

Google has revealed the most powerful computer for understanding the English language in the world – and called it Parsey McParseFace. The technology, which is built on the more sensibly named TensorFlow and SyntaxNet frameworks, is a powerful tool that uses new artificial intelligence technology to be able to analyse the linguistic structure of language, and understand what each part of a sentence does to its meaning. Google is making the tool open source, so that anybody can use it for free. But it will probably go down in history because of its silly name. Google said that the name – a reference to the controversial Boaty McBoatface – was a suggestion that came while it was trying to name the new technology, and that it didn't have any better alternatives.

Yes, to get you to pay attention to what would otherwise be a fairly dense and nerdy thing, Google is using an homage to Boaty McBoatface for one of the software tools it's releasing today. But don't just laugh (or groan) at the name, what Google is giving developers and researchers access to is a big deal. Today, it's open-sourcing something it calls SyntaxNet and a component for it, Mr. McParseface. These are some of the tools that Google uses to understand natural language when you type it into a box or speak to Google Now. SyntaxNet is the overall framework for parsing sentences, called a "syntactic parser."