This occurs when you tell a
Primitive Robot Intelligence something like
Russel's Paradox. Usually
steam starts to come out of their head, and they spin in circles. Eventually their head explodes.
This is the best way to defeat any
malevolent AI; just confuse it and it'll overheat. This is put in by
SF tv writers who have inadvertently introduced
villains who are
better than humans in every way -
faster,
smarter, higher tech, more
patient, not influenced by
emotion. The only way to make the hero win in the end is by introducing this absurd weakness.
Robotic Brain Meltdown comes up quite often in
Doctor Who.