True. I think that's about a quarter of the dram produced. Though it could be used in public sector research and not just thrown away.

Astronomy and Biology research benefit from AI image analysis models. Because it's not just generating slop text. It's used to analyze image data to find potential points of interest. Reducing an impossible number of raw data points (stars, cells, etc) down to a manageable number that can be analyzed and confirmed by an actual human.

This isn't the "AI" people talk about when they say "AI". It was just called "machine learning with computer vision models" before all the AI marketing crap.