Applications for Artificial Intelligence (AI) have grown substantially over the last few years in the legal, medical, and automotive industries. These business sectors are regulated more heavily than semiconductor manufacturing equipment is, but use of AI in the semiconductor industry is lagging. The costs and benefits of AI are relatively easy to project, so it follows that AI has been studied and found that large-scale adoption provides an insufficient return on investment. A cost model will be proposed showing likely AI growth areas such as automated maintenance tasks and performance benchmarking, and a few that may remain out of reach.