TWiT 586: The AIs are Talking




This Week in Tech (MP3) show

Summary: <p>Apple announces the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, Microsoft announces the Surface Studio and Windows 10 Creators Update, Twitter kills Vine and lays off almost 10% of its workforce, Google Home arriving next week, DirecTV Now gives 100 channels for $35, and Uber delivers 50,000 Budweisers with their Otto self-driving semi.</p><ul> <li>Leo wants to know - have Apple and Microsoft swapped brains?</li> <li>Are we heading toward a world where you don't know which virtual assistant to ask what?</li> <li>What is scarier: a self-driving beer truck or artificial intelligence that can talk to each other using unbreakable encryption</li> </ul> <p><strong>Guests:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/acedtect" target="_blank">Tom Merritt</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/christina-warren">Christina Warren</a>, and <a href="http://twitter.com/StevenLevy" target="_blank">Steven Levy</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech</a></p><p>Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by <a href="https://www.cachefly.com/" target="_blank">CacheFly</a>.</p>