Because it is the hot new thing and HN is a hype machine. Before AI there were crypto and blockchain, after AI there will be something else.

Because if the idea is interesting, it's interesting.

AI discussions attract people who love it, who hate it and who are tired of hearing about it. All three groups end up opening the thread and commenting.

It's the cutting edge and it's a bit wild west. There is a lot of room for innovative use cases that, whether actually practical or not, can be marketed and sold as practical.

Just like AI-related projects on GitHub always get an entirely different order of magnitude of stars. This is what people are focused on, outshines anything else.

The submitter reduced the complexity of the situation to a whim, and misrepresented it.

Reality is what it is, some heavier some lighter: we discuss reality, its details ranked by weight.

Points aren't that meaningful but that's the part that is a "popularity contest."

For what it's worth.

Its all about AI these days.