Old man: Of course, everything makes sense now!
(The ad on the wrapping shows: 2-in-one: gardening robot AND killer robot).It’s from the German cartoon page https://joscha.com/ (before: nichtlustig/ not funny).
Is the joke that he tried to kill someone with the bot?
The joke is, that the owner had no clue about it’s dual-use. But he already suspected that something is wrong with his gardening bot (maybe because of some murders). And now it comes for him.
1980s: evil robot eyes were red because that was just the cheapest option at the time and nobody wants a green or yellow-eyed robot anyway.
2000s: you have to go out of your way to install red LEDs for the evil function, along with the blue LEDs you were obviously gonna use since they’re they’re the trendy new hotness after (finally!) having been invented in 1994.
2020s: evil robot eyes are red because everything’s got addressible RGB LEDs in it these days and the robot picked red in software.
Innovation!
Look turning evil shouldn’t happen, but UX best practices dictate that you should inform the user of the error so that they can troubleshoot the problem. Red eyed murder robots are good user experience!
It’s me. I write software and complain to the hardware team when I don’t have leds to blink for diagnostic purposes.
All my homies love diagnosing problems by decoding LEDs blinking in code.
Exactly……
Like, do you not want a light that informs you of the evil?
Just because I installed a check-engine light in my AI doesn’t mean I designed it to be evil 😝
