There difference is between "check" and "do" - verifying your work is a helpful use of feedback, not being able to multiply single digits without a calculator is a failed skill without a crutch to rely on.

Calculators are deterministic. I'd be super upset if my sister was using a calculator that can hallucinate and trusting the output.

> a calculator to check her math homework

Change 'check' to 'do' and we'll have a discussion.

If she was using it to check 24 + 7, then yes.

Calculators in the 70s were a huge subject of debate and there were precise rulings, standard models, definitions and codes of ethics around them. It didn't just solve itself.

ah yes, "something in the past happened so then this thing in the present is ok" argument

now mention Socrates and his dislike of writing, or maybe how people were worried about television, video games...

meanwhile, a 12 years old somewhere is mechanically copying and pasting her math homework while understanding and learning absolutely nothing

no, wait, it's not just one 12 years old, it's probably all of them

Seems like your pattern matching can have many false positives.

Calculators don't do homework. Neither slide rules do.

For the record, I just asked a LLM for an answer I already knew in hope it gives me a link to the original documentation page.

Nope. It tried 5 times and failed.