This article sort of lists the ideals, but is factually contradicted by the immense amounts of non-impactful and trivial AI papers, who have around 20 authors e

This article sort of lists the ideals, but is factually contradicted by the immense amounts of non-impactful and trivial AI papers, who have around 20 authors each. There does seem to be a strong incentive to publish whatever and distribute the credit among dozens of people. For the rare actually impactful research the advice is a bit trivial, you might as well quote Feynman: 1) Sit down. 2) Think hard. 3) Write down the solution.