AI working on Windows 98: Marc Andreessen says ‘we could have been talking to computers for 30 years’

Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), recently made a surprising revelation regarding artificial intelligence and older computing systems. Speaking at an event, he disclosed that a small Llama AI model was successfully run on a Dell PC from the Windows 98 era. The revelation has sparked discussions about whether human-like interactions with computers could have been achieved decades ago.

Could Conversational AI Have Existed 30 Years Ago?

Andreessen suggested that the technology necessary for natural,…