> Academia has shot itself in the foot by generating so many damn papers every year (>10,000). Each PhD student needs 3-5 papers to graduate. Nowadays you even

> Academia has shot itself in the foot by generating so many damn papers every year (>10,000). Each PhD student needs 3-5 papers to graduate. Nowadays you even need 1-2 to simply get into a PhD program. The huge number of papers compared to, say, 10 or 15 years ago simply reflects how many more PhD students there are in this area. It definitely isn't sustainable but academia is a distributed system. There's no way to coordinate publishing less. No individual agent will rationally choose that. Especially that it's not just competition within AI but other CS fields too for huge grants and the grant agencies defer to citation and publication metrics. CVPR is among the top scientific publication venues by various metrics and this state of affairs also benefits the field. There are reasons for why things are this way but the way it's going is clearly unsustainable. It's a red queen race, similar to grade inflation, credential inflation, and various forms of cost disease.