Trying out problems and making tangible progress towards AGI are entirely different categories. Likewise what’s changed in terms of paper submissions is also the amount of slop. Most reviewers say that they haven’t seen a lot more papers that are good but rather they’ve seen a lot more papers and almost all of them are terrible slop that’s desk rejected. This is happening in OSS too where a lot of projects are closing the gate at the onslaught of terrible contributions.

> Trying out problems and making tangible progress towards AGI are entirely different categories.

They seem very strongly related to me.