In education, artificial intelligence (AI) has not made much headway. In the one area where it would seem poised to lend the most benefit--assessment--the reliance on standardized tests, intensified by the demands of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which holds schools accountable for whether students pass statewide exams, precludes its use. Standardized tests are graded consistently, with no allowance for individual student abilities or styles of learning, and no place for artificial intelligence's ability to decipher and shore up weaknesses. In this article, the author takes a look at several software developers that are making notable enhancements to their AI technology and at the schools that use these technology. An interview with Ray Kurzweil, an artificial intelligence guru whose theories about the potential of machine intelligence have generated much debate over the years, is presented. In his interview, Kurzweil talks about how AI can be useful in K-12 assessment and where he sees it's going in a few years from now.