Related: Today, I was in an elevator, and a middle-aged Japanese woman next to me was text chatting with ChatGPT on her mobile phone about a Chinese brand of spicy (mala/麻辣) instant noodles that she was holding in her hand. Chinese food has many ingredients that do not exist in Japan cuisine, so she was asking about various spices used in the noodles. I asked her if this was her first time trying those noodles. She replied yes, and asked me if I had also tried it. I said yes -- they are very spicy! She laughed. Again: Cool to see normies using ChatGPT (and other LLMs) for normie stuff.