Better AI research depends on benchmarks, Intel guru says

The head of the Intel's Neuromorphic Computing Lab wants a standard set of academic and industry benchmarks to track research progress for cloud and AI work. He offered up a few starting points towards such benchmarks in a recent scholarly article in Nature Machine Intelligence. It's a big ask, but not all that different from what goes in most of science: Why go to the moon? Why even have cars, aren't horses good enough? For Pete's sake, why invent the wheel?