Nonsense. There has been plenty of progress for AI research. The explanation usually given is that once a solution to a "ai" problem has been implemented, it is no longer considered an "ai" problem. e.g voice recognition, facial recognition, compilers, chess master slayers, etc...
If humans can perform simple arithmetic operations, does that mean calculators are a solution to another "AI problem"? So are voice/face recognition systems (which, in fact, never gave satisfactory results so you can't even call them "solved").