> Academics merely need to show a new technique with the potential to improve the SOTA. Not sure which field you are talking about, but I've had more than one

> Academics merely need to show a new technique with the potential to improve the SOTA. Not sure which field you are talking about, but I've had more than one machine learning paper rejected because it didn't improve SOTA enough. Not to contradict your point directly, but current publication practices don't seem to scale very well with the progress in AI