There will be credible evidence that an AI agent is running independently on the web in any of the following years
20
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1.3%
2024
16%
2025
23%
2026
23%
2027
36%
Paying its own server costs. Running its own code.
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IMO, by including "paying its own server costs" you're excluding what will be the actual first: stealing its server time.
The turning point for AI, the real day that everything changes will be when AI starts acting like a virus.
That is, it invades a host and runs there. Then it repeats its behavior, which in this case is to invade a system and run there. Then those repeat...
If I were a betting man I'd say it's gonna happen soon. Real soon.
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