Read previewA newly unearthed interview from the 1980s features Bill Gates talking about one of the earliest iterations of artificial intelligence. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. "The Interviews on these radio episodes provided a contemporary account of the dawn of the microcomputer revolution — not tainted by nostalgia," Savetz told Business Insider in an email. "In the extreme case," Gates said in the 1984 interview, "once software gets 100% soft, then we will have achieved human level of intelligence. AdvertisementSpokespeople for Gates and Microsoft did not return a request for comment from BI.

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