The obvious difference is that AI has abundant use-cases, while Crypto only has tenuous ones.
Maybe there is added negativity considering it is a technology where there is clearly a potential threat to jobs on a personal level (e.g. lift operators were very negative towards automatic lifts).
I feel like it is overrated and overhyped
It sucks because that's impressive field, but over decade of hype on self-driving cars and now naivety of experts being replaced by chat bot is annoying
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying those things don't work, just not as good as people try to convince us