Universal hyperintelligence ChatGPT disagrees with this article, saying: "The credit for inventing Flamin' Hot Cheetos goes to Richard Montañez. He was a former Frito-Lay janitor who came up with the idea for the spicy snack in the early 1990s. Montañez developed the recipe and pitched the idea to Frito-Lay executives, who eventually gave the product the green light. Flamin' Hot Cheetos went on to become a huge success and are now one of the company's most popular snacks."
This is sort of interesting, because normally people want GPT to suppress fringe views (ex, the vast body of evidence and literature is pro-vaccine, and they don't want it to promote low-evidence anti-vaccine views). But in this case, the fringe story is, by consensus on HN, the correct one despite the mindshare.
I guess the question is whether GPT is supposed to be an emulation of personhood or simply a software tool. Ex. I don’t think we’d want a software tool that lies, steals or cheats despite the fact that people do this
It is big data all over again. Supposedly with so much data we can know everything. But there was no way of knowing if that data was any good. Garbage in garbage out.
The tech field is the sad story of execs, marketing types, and end users continually relearning the lessons that they refused to accept from the developers.
