US EditionNumber's up: Calculators Hold Out Against AI
Casio sold 39 million calculators globally in the last fiscal year due to their affordability, reliability, and battery/solar power, despite AI achieving gold-level math contest scores.
- In the year to March, Casio sold 39 million calculators in around 100 countries, reflecting strong international demand.
- Casio says calculators persist because they are cheaper than phones, run on batteries or solar power, aiding schools in developing countries, and `calculators always give the right answer` unlike AI chatbots.
- July's IMO saw AI models by Google, OpenAI and DeepSeek reach gold-level but miss full marks, while at a Casio factory in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, assembly-line workers fitted circuit boards and buttons.
- Ryohei Saito, Casio general manager in Thailand, says calculators remain in demand despite a downward trend in the personal business market, while some street vendors report sales are quiet as Casio targets schools in developing countries.
- Casio's 1957 14-A underlines a long lineage as Christie's suspended the Paris sale of La Pascaline and experts say physical calculators may `slowly disappear` like the abacus.
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The Straits TimesNumber’s up: Calculators hold out against AI
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The new technologies seem to announce the inexorable end of the simple plastic calculator but, for the time being, Japanese Cassio continues to sell tens of millions each year and plans to gain ground both in stores and schools.Both smart phones and computers have integrated calculators, and everything points to artificial intelligence (AI) coming to own competencies of the best human mathematicians, a set of factors that could mean the end of t…
The new technologies seem to announce the inexorable end of the simple plastic calculator but, for the time being, Japanese Cassio continues to sell tens of millions each year and plans to gain ground both in stores and schools.Both smart phones and computers have integrated calculators, and everything points to artificial intelligence (AI) coming to own competencies of the best human mathematicians, a set of factors that could mean the end of t…
Numbers up: calculators hold their own against AI
The humble pocket calculator may not be able to keep up with the mathematical capabilities of the new technology, but it will never hallucinate. The continued reliability of the device equates to millions of sales per year for Japan's Casio, which even expects expansion in certain regions. Despite the rapid advances in artificial intelligence, chatbots […]
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