Having being involved in efforts to standardize AI components roughly 10 years ago I can say that, even for somewhat delimited domains, this is not a trivial goal.
I really hope their effort can provide a strong enough push, even if not like the one that go us the Internet. Good luck!
This might be a good thing. I am still not convinced that machine learning is so great it is pictured to be, but the potential is certainly worth studying. Better tools and languages are a must in this area.