AI if you are speaking in English, sir (Eu também misturo AI falando em português e IA falando em inglês lol).

I'm going insane in both languages lol.

Your natural computing anecdote felt very familiar as I noticed pretty much the exact same pattern when I used to do Deep Learning research. It feels like one of those Proof of Work crypto systems where a lot of human labour and energy is wasted on "publishing" bland accuracy-maxxing papers.