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Number’s up: Calculators hold out against AI

In July, AI models made by Google, OpenAI and DeepSeek reached gold-level scores at the annual International Mathematical Olympiad
n July, AI models made by Google, OpenAI and DeepSeek reached gold-level scores at the annual International Mathematical Olympiad.

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’s enduring reliability equates to millions of sales each year for Japan’s Casio, which is even eyeing expansion in certain regions.

Despite lightning-speed advances in artificial intelligence, chatbots still sometimes stumble on basic addition.

In contrast, “calculators always give the correct answer,” Casio executive Tomoaki Sato told AFP.

But he conceded that calculators could one day go the way of the abacus.

“It’s undeniable that the market for personal calculators used in business is on a...

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Researchers Trick Large Language Models into providing Prohibited Responses

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ChatGPT and Bard may well be key players in the digital revolution currently underway in computing, coding, medicine, education, industry and finance, but they also are capable of easily being tricked into providing subversive data.

Articles in recent months detail some of the leading problems. Disinformation, inappropriate and offensive content, privacy breaches and psychological harm to vulnerable users all raise issues of questions about if and how such content can be controlled.

OpenAI and Google have, for instance, designed protective barriers to stanch some of the more egregious incidents of bias and offensive content. But it is clear that a complete victory is not yet in sight.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh are...

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