Imagining the Digital Future Center reports on ‘The Rise of AI Companions’
www.elon.edu
A new survey finds that 27% of U.S. adult internet users have social and emotional interactions with artificial intelligence systems, with a third of those users considering their AI bot as a friend.
  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    6 days ago

    It is kinda interesting to see how much tech has overwhelmed the top rankings. I mean, “tech in the US has doing well” has been a thing all of my life, but over the years, it’s really crept up there. Almost everyone there is self-made wealthy in tech.

    • Musk: manufacturing, fintech
    • Page: tech
    • Dell: tech (personal computers…again, manufacturing, not pure software)
    • Bezos: tech (well…again, Amazon is also logistics now, though I do kinda think of it as a dot-com, not to mention being a cloud services provider)
    • Brin: tech
    • Zuckerberg: tech
    • Ellison: tech
    • Huang: tech (hardware, not software)
    • Ballmer: tech
    • Buffet: finance
    • Ortega: fast fashion (and not in the US:Europe)
    • Walton: retailing
    • Arnault: luxury goods (and not in the US:Europe)
    • More Walton: retailing
    • Slim: Varied (and not in the US)
    • More Walton: retailing
    • Gates: tech
    • Zhao: fintech/cryptocurrency (not in the US:China)
    • Peterffy: fintech
    • Bloomberg: finance, fintech

    I mean, outside of Musk not fitting into pure tech, Waltons doing retailing, Buffet being a famous investor, and maybe Bloomberg, depending upon how you classify him, being finance, it’s all tech now. Like, that’s where the big economic growth has happened. The non-tech stuff is outside the US: two Europeans in luxury goods and retailing, and a Mexican in a huge conglomerate.

    And in the US, only the Waltons are on there due to simply inheriting a shit-ton of multigenerational wealth.