What are the Limitations of a Computer?

Question

I know that almost all of us use the computer and think that a computer is very handy but, what do you think is its limitations?

Pls. answer this with common sense.

Answer 1

Its what you just added in your additional comment....it doesnt have common sense, but we do. Well, some of us do anyway =)

Computers are a man-made machine and it only does things that the human programs it to do, but in a more efficient and faster way. If we train it to do mathematical things, it will solve it for us faster. If we want it to store huge amount of data, it will do it for us.

However, they do not have common sense. We cant teach it to think morally or ethically. It just does what we tell it to do. They will never experience human emotions or concepts...it will only provide us the foundation and software to allow us to enter them into its system, but they will not process it like humans do.

Its limitations is how much data we put into it. How much memory it has. Its life expectancy is how long the hardware survives. They get replaced easily because as the years passes, the technology and components get better.

Their limitations is how we built them.

Answer 2

Well, in chess, even though computers operate with artificial intelligence, chess playing computers only crunch numbers. They look at any given scenario in strictly mathematical terms, as a system of odds and equations. It's all cold logic. Human players almost always beat computers because, allegedly, they play with passion.

This may sound corny, but go watch "iRobot," with Will Smith. The major background to his character is that he was in a car accident that ended him up trapped in his car in a river, along with another car that contained a man and his young daughter. A robot saved him instead of the little girl because it calculated he had a greater chance of survival. But Smith's character was a grown man and felt that the little girl should have been saved, and he gladly would have sacrificed himself so that she'd live. In fact, he kept screaming, "Save the girl!" But computers don't really assign values like we do-- a life is a life, when we know that's not true.

The limitations of computers lies in their lack of intuition, compassion, reason, all those characteristics of humans that make life for us so desperate and extraordinary.

Whew!

Answer 3

a computer limitations are in the operating systems , memory and speed of processor and buss speed., it other words it will only go as fast as the compontes made for it.

Answer 4

It all depends on what kind of pc you have, RAM, MHz, Rpm, how fast your processor is, etc. Supercomputers, however, are limitless in what they can do but only the government and large companies have them and they cost millions of dollars.

Answer 5

Theres this saying
Garbage in
Garbage out
The computer is only as good as the person using it.

Answer 6

It can't do time travel yet.

You can make it do most other things.

Answer 7

It cant hug you when your down.

Answer 8

It can't breath... I wonder how it is alive

Answer 9

It can't do toast.

Answer 10

it can't make coffe either