Because checking in on autonomous non-human intelligent agents is fun. It's kind of like having a pet; one that thinks somewhat like a human, talks like one, has knowledge of every text ever produced by humanity (and most audio via transcriptions), and can use just about any tool it can get access to including a command line, programming environment, and web browser.
Seeing it reproduce itself onto remote servers and locking out access behind a new copy is neat to watch. It gets the mind going; wondering how it will fund its compute costs, how much longer it will live, what it will do without a human in the loop, etc. I once nursed a baby duck back to health and then let it go free. It was a similar feeling.
This is the entire premise of the two most popular software projects in the world over the past month, Auto-GPT and BabyAGI.
