Potentially dumb question: if AI is so good, why can’t it lower the memory prices instead of hyper-inflating them?

Basically the post header.

Seeing lots of hype of how more and more powerful the AI is, how great it's for software development, robotics etc. Which I can see how AI can be a beneficial tool for.

But for all the hype, what can it do that's actually real? So far I've seen a rise in AI-related employment and a huge spike in memory and SSD prices that is being attributed to the AI boom. But if AI is so incredible and smart and shortens the development cycles etc, why can't memory prices be decreasing instead of increasing?

Is that a dumb question to ask or does the AI hype not reach what is real?