AI now produces ~5,000 new papers a month, sparking information-overload debate
GlenBerseth · x · 2026-09-23
A back-of-envelope estimate: NeurIPS received 35K submissions, 28K resubmitted into the next cycle, implying 27K new AI/ML papers in about 5 months — roughly 5,000 per month. Glen Berseth quotes it with a quip: AI/CS is both the solution to and the cause of an ever-growing information explosion.
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