The information stored digitally nowadays is massive. Nevertheless, it's the humans job to make sense out of it.
On which occasions do you realize computers aren't smart, because they had all info around, but failed to assist?
On which occasions do you realize computers aren't as smart as they could be?
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- 3+ months ago by marbetschar
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Are you aware of an occasion where a computer could have helped you out - but it didn't? Which occasion was it?
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We often describe a computer as "smart" but in fact it is no smarter than a shovel. No matter how much time you spend talking on some internet forum, you are still only talking to your computer, and it is still only a machine. No matter how much of your life is controlled by computers, they still only do what some programmer decided in advance should be done, and their smartness will never exceed that of the programmer.
In any case, the failure is called "a computerized mistake" and it is famously unpredictable. If it were predictable, the programmer would have fixed it already.
In case of a severe programming error which leads to e.g. an exception or an app crash I agree on this. But the question is not about technical implementation details and such trivial cases where programmers just made a mistake.
It's about the feeling of those days you know the computer could have helped you out - but it didn't.
You keep expecting the computer to love you, and it can't. It's only a machine. Just a fancy shovel.
computers are crap and i believe that life shuldnt revolve around computers cuz on paper someone would have to pouposeley destroy data but on computer just one power outage and now noone can use there debit cards one time i lost an account for a popular game that was worth $20 cuz one server failed
Rational wise you're absolutely right: Obviously computer's are just machines, doing what programmers told them to do.
But if you work with computers, it just natural to blame the machine in front of you for failures instead of a unknown programmer you've never met. At least, that's what my intention of this question was.
Maybe I should reformulate my question to something like "As a user of Software: On which occasions do you realize programmers weren't as smart as you wish your program should be" to get the desired answers ...?