I say it does, soley for ease of use, like HD said, if you are looking for a intellectual AI with speech recognition, then I know form experience Vb.net / C# is great, their SDK is killer IMO, and it is so easy to develop a large enough database of communications and responses, obvs the learning curve would be a challenge, but with some hard work it is possible, IE: I always say AI should start off like an infant, basic understanding, and a infinite number of possibilities, like learning words and their meanings, training the AI with constant communication, and when it doesn't understand something, you teach it, again, because AI technology in general is still somewhat limited , the AI will still be Faux, but getting there.
Now if it's gaming AI, path finding, basic AI logic, then C++ has numerous great SDK's, and so does (what used to be my favorite) Real Basic