Beyond Benchmarks: Why AI Evaluation Needs a Reality Check

There are so many AI models to choose from, and it can be difficult to establish benchmarks to measure their performance.

Beyond Benchmarks: Why AI Evaluation Needs a Reality Check

If you have been following AI these days, you have likely seen headlines reporting the breakthrough achievements of AI models achieving benchmark records. From ImageNet image recognition tasks to achieving superhuman scores in translation and medical image diagnostics, benchmarks have long been the gold standard for measuring AI performance. However, as impressive as these numbers may be, they don’t always capture the complexity of real-world ap…