TY - JOUR AU - Lenat, Douglas B. PY - 2008/07/10 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Voice of the Turtle: Whatever Happened to AI? JF - AI Magazine JA - AIMag VL - 29 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.1609/aimag.v29i2.2106 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2106 SP - 11 AB - <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">On March 27, 2006, I gave a light-hearted and occasionally bittersweet presentation on “Whatever Happened to AI?” at the Stanford Spring Symposium presentation – to a lively audience of active AI researchers and formerly-active ones (whose current inaction could be variously ascribed to their having aged, reformed, given up, redefined the problem, etc.)<span>  </span>This article is a brief chronicling of that talk, and I entreat the reader to take it in that spirit: a textual snapshot of a discussion with friends and colleagues, rather than a scholarly article. I begin by whining about the Turing Test, but only for a thankfully brief bit, and then get down to my top-10 list of factors that have retarded progress in our field, that have delayed the emergence of a true strong AI.</span> ER -