Apple just paid $2 billion for Q.ai, an AI company with technology that could dramatically enhance the Siri voice assistant. It’s a stealth-mode Israeli artificial intelligence startup that develops advanced technologies to improve human/computer communication beyond basic speech recognition. Siri could become the home of Q.ai speech recognitionApple is working hard to upgrade Siri for the new AI era. But using voice to interact with AI quickly gets frustrating if the computer can’t hear or follow what the person is saying. That’s not that far behind the $3 billion that Apple paid for Beats Electronics in 2014, the most it’s ever paid for an acquisition.