Ask HN: Why AI companies so limited?

You’d think with all the hype and money flowing into these companies, they’d actually come up with something revolutionary. Instead, we see yet another note-taking tool. Another rent-seeking middleman. Another iteration of something that already exists—just with fewer people employed, because costs were cut.

Where is the equivalent of building semiconductors for this era? Where is the leap from a horse to the Model T? And if that’s too hard, why not go after industries everyone hates—like U.S. health insurance? Where are the AI companies burning billions to make healthcare as cheap and accessible as an iPhone?

Setting aside the industrial copyright theft issues, it would be one thing if “AI bros” were actually delivering something that changed society for the better. But instead, it feels like AI is not only large-scale copyright theft, but also, for the most part, useless.