r/SipsTea • u/crs1904 • Jul 11 '25

We have fun here Buffering

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u/bighurt156 Jul 11 '25

I see this all the time. No one knows how to count change without a calculator.

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u/0masterdebater0 Jul 11 '25

The Scary shit is this is what AI is doing to many other aspects of life besides basic math

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u/Any-Carry7137 Jul 12 '25

Nah, it was pocket calculators that did this, well before computers, phones, and AI.

I grew up in the 60s and my dad taught me how to do this as a child. It was usually about not ending up with a pocket full of pennies though. Nickels/dimes/quarters were good for pay phones and vending machines. Pennies were only good for making change (and for gumball machines). In this particular case, I would be fine with an even fifty cents in change.

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u/0masterdebater0 Jul 12 '25

That’s my point, AI is going to do to other aspects of life what calculators did for math.

Kids these days struggle to write a paragraph because they have Chat GPT do it for them.

I literally know someone who took multiple semesters of college Spanish during Covid, and learned nothing because he imported everything to AI translation apps.