Apple’s AI moment is coming

It looks like Siri will be much more powerful starting this fall. Whether that’s good news or a harbinger of endless tech frustration depends on how you feel about Siri, artificial intelligence, virtual assistants, and the whole idea that your devices should be able to do things on your behalf. Either way, it seems virtually certain that we’ll hear an awful lot about how Siri can improve your life at Apple’s WWDC conference on Monday.

This year’s WWDC is really vital for Apple. CEO Tim Cook and others have suggested that this is when Apple will reveal its massive plans for artificial intelligence and put an end to the notion that Apple is somehow behind Google, OpenAI and the rest. But what will it look like? Who knows! But it will be artificial intelligence and it will be everywhere.

Once we’re done talking about Apple and how Alex Cranz wants to really make good exploit of AI to make his phone look ugly, we do a good lightning round and talk about streaming price hikes, Chromebooks, Elon Musk, and whether $56 billion is enough for someone motivate you to take care of your work. A really complex question.

If you want to learn more about everything we cover in this episode, here are some links to get you started, first with the week’s gadget news:

And in the lightning round: