By 2027, the number of AI-powered bots browsing the web will exceed the number of human users, according to a projection by Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince.

The executive stated this during an interview at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. Prince noted that “bot traffic on websites is expanding as the use of generative AI advances. Specifically, because these bots are able to visit more pages to gather information and respond to user queries.”

The CEO of Cloudflare indicated that if a user wants to buy a product themselves, they will make a limited number of searches on their chosen websites. However, if they ask “a chatbot like ChatGPT to search for that product and similar ones, the bot will analyze thousands of web pages to find it.”

He added that while bot traffic on the internet was 20 % before the rise of generative AI, “the trend indicates that the number of bots will surpass humans in a couple of years.”

Taking this data into account, the CEO predicts that next year online bot traffic will exceed the amount of human online traffic, which could become a problem for website servers.

Faced with a potential scenario of a surge in chatbots navigating the web, Prince emphasizes the “need to develop new technologies with isolated environments for AI agents.” It proposes the development of a new underlying infrastructure “that allows, with the same ease as opening a new browser tab, the execution of new code that can then function and provide services to existing agents.”

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Source: lanacion

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