{"id":227464,"date":"2025-12-19T13:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/numbers-up-calculators-hold-out-against-ai"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:09:12","slug":"numbers-up-calculators-hold-out-against-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/numbers-up-calculators-hold-out-against-ai","title":{"rendered":"Number\u2019s up: Calculators hold out against AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/numbers-up-calculators-hold-out-against-ai.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The humble pocket calculator may not be able to keep up with the mathematical capabilities of new technology, but it will never hallucinate.<\/p>\n<p>The device\u2019s enduring reliability equates to millions of sales each year for Japan\u2019s Casio, which is even eyeing expansion in certain regions.<\/p>\n<p>Despite lightning-speed advances in artificial intelligence, chatbots still sometimes stumble on basic addition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The humble pocket calculator may not be able to keep up with the mathematical capabilities of new technology, but it will never hallucinate. The device\u2019s enduring reliability equates to millions of sales each year for Japan\u2019s Casio, which is even eyeing expansion in certain regions. Despite lightning-speed advances in artificial intelligence, chatbots still sometimes stumble [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}