How good is Microsoft Bing’s ChatGPT when generating articles? I pulled up the “copilot” for Microsoft Edge and plugged in some prompts. Out came the below article on the two Soldiers who died in a helicopter crash in Mississippi… Sans APA formatted references.
How did AI do with “writing” the below article? Right on target? Fell short?
By Microsoft Bing and ChatGPT:
Helicopter Crash
On a fateful day during a routine training flight, tragedy struck the skies over Mississippi. Two Army National Guard soldiers lost their lives when their AH-64 Apache helicopter crashed near the small city of Booneville. The incident occurred on Friday afternoon, leaving the nation mourning the loss of these brave men.
The Fallen Heroes
1. Chief Warrant Officer 4 Bryan Andrew Zemek:
- Hailing from Oxford, Mississippi, Zemek was an AH-64D Apache Standardization Instructor Pilot with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 149th Aviation Regiment.
- His military awards included the Army Achievement Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with three bronze oak leaf clusters, and the Senior Army Aviator Badge, among others.
- Zemek’s dedication to service and his role as an instructor pilot made him an invaluable asset to his unit.
2. Chief Warrant Officer 4 Derek Joshua Abbott:
- Abbott, aged 42, called Fulton, Mississippi, his home.
- As a Maintenance Test Pilot, he served with Delta Company of the 2nd Battalion, 151st Lakota Medical Evacuation unit.
- Abbott was a combat veteran who had served in Iraq. His accolades included the Air Medal with Valor, the Iraq Campaign Medal, and the Army Commendation Medal with two bronze oak leaf clusters.
- His commitment to excellence and his courage in the face of danger exemplified the spirit of our armed forces.
The Tragic Incident
The two soldiers were operating out of the Mississippi National Guard Army Aviation Support Facility 2 in Tupelo when they embarked on a “routine training flight.” However, fate intervened, and their AH-64 Apache helicopter suddenly crashed near Booneville around 2 p.m. local time on that ill-fated Friday. The cause of the crash remains under investigation, and details are yet to be disclosed.
A Painful Loss
At a press conference, Maj. Gen. Janson D. Boyles, adjutant general of Mississippi, expressed the collective grief: “Our paramount concern at this time is to ensure proper casualty assistance is available to support the surviving family members through this difficult time. The Mississippi National Guard is family. In fact, the National Guard is family. Our hearts are truly broken at the loss of these two members of our family“.
A Nation Remembers
This tragic incident adds to a somber list of deadly helicopter accidents during training missions. Last year, two U.S. Army Apache helicopters collided in Alaska, claiming the lives of three soldiers. In another heartbreaking incident in Kentucky, two Black Hawk helicopters crashed, resulting in the loss of nine soldiers. These brave men and women put their lives on the line to protect our freedom, and their sacrifice will forever be etched in our hearts.
As we honor the memory of Chief Warrant Officers Bryan Andrew Zemek and Derek Joshua Abbott, we recognize that our debt to them can never be fully repaid. Their service, dedication, and sacrifice remind us of the true cost of freedom. May they rest in peace, and may their families find solace in the gratitude of a grateful nation.
References
Britzky, H., Paget, S., & Razek, R. (2024, February 24). 2 National Guardsmen killed in military helicopter crash in Mississippi. CNN Politics. https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/23/politics/national-guard-helicopter-mississippi/index.html
Flemming, J. (2024, February 25). A devastating day: Mississippi National Guard mourns 2 warrant officers killed in helicopter crash. Stars & Stripes. https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-02-25/mississippi-national-guard-soldiers-crash-identified-13115252.html
Gains, M., & Romero, D. (2024, February 24). Two dead after military helicopter crashes during training flight in Mississippi. NBC News via MSN.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/two-dead-after-military-helicopter-crashes-during-training-flight-in-mississippi/ar-BB1iN38C
Stewart, P. & Oatis, J. (2024, February 25). Two Mississippi National Guardsmen dead in military helicopter crash. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-military-helicopter-crashes-mississippi-during-routine-training-2024-02-23/
Slayton, N. (2024, February 24). 2 Armny National Guard soldiers killed in helicopter crash identified. Task & Purpose. https://taskandpurpose.com/news/mississippi-apache-helicopter-crash-army-national-guar/
“Routine training flight…” These tragic deaths are becoming as routine as combat losses to pilots in a war.
Rest Easy, Gentlemen…His Peace bring some measure of His Comfort to the families.
Article is close enough to the articles I read over the weekend on this subject.
Rest Easy Gentlemen.
(not a bad for 1s-and-0s)
God Speed gentlemen.
An aside –
That’s a very interesting picture you have accompanying this article. It seems that the AI here is as good at rendering the stub wings on the Apache as it was doing hands a few months back. Also, it looks like there are some toy soldiers SPIE rigging of the near aircraft. Several others seem to levitating. Give me good ol’ human drawings any day.
Rest in peace. 🫡
My heart aches for the families and friends of those who lose their life training to defend us all. Thank God, truly, we are still producing such men and women in this country. The fact we need them so desperately at this present moment in history makes their loss even more tragic.
Flame me for this, I don’t care but something doesn’t sit right about using AI to generate an article about these tragic deaths. Maybe it has something to do with the awareness the sentiments and expressions of feeling are artificial. Then again, those same words come out of too many human mouths with as much artifice.
I understand the impetus to discuss, dissect and test AI, but not on this topic.
No flaming from me, as I’m a widower, having lost my wife in the fall of 2016. I could understand why you feel the way you do, but I see death, passing, differently than most people.
How does one say that they’ve been to the other side without coming across as being fringe? Passing away, or having a near death experience, are not the only way to do this. Years of meditative exercises opens the door to another path… Via remote viewing and via out of the body experiences.
I’ve even walked someone, who graduated high school with me in the late 1980s, to the other side. She was happy, she was met with celebrations and cheers by those waiting for her on the other side.
For this reason, I see the passing, and loss, differently from others. When I go on memorial threads and say something to the effect that “death is an illusion, as much as the illusion of blindness when one blinks their eyes,” I’m saying this from a practical standpoint in addition to related literature on this topic.
I’ve been to the other side. One of the impressions I’ve had during these experiences is that indeed, our entire physical existence is a “simulation” aimed at accelerating the development of our souls. Those who have passed over to the other side want us to continue to be happy. One of the first orders of business for those who come to the end of their physical sojourn on Earth, is to try to stop those who are grieving from grieving. If anything, the grief serves as a barrier to attempts by those who had passed away to communicate with those who are still in the physical.
Our real selves is our spirit. From the “spirit’s eyes”, our physical lives are like a stage play and that we had stepped off the stage upon “death.” Decades in the physical come across as seconds on the other side. Our reunion may seem like decades away for us, but for those on the other side, we will rejoin them “in a few.”
It is a part of our “soul contracts,” with those who had passed away, to continue and enjoy life, to include doing what we’ve been doing regarding technological and other developments. It makes no sense, to those who are on the other side, that we try to restrict our activities, or change the way we do things, on their account.
I had experienced this on the eve of the first anniversary of my late wife’s passing. I was going to leave the Halloween lights off, not turn them on for the night. I felt the growing darkness weighing heavily on me… Until I felt the urge to turn them on. I sensed my late wife behind this urge. I subsequently turned the lights on. My late wife did not want a memorial event, she wanted me to continue living as I would had she not passed away.
AI relies on what people have said and posted across the Internet, so ultimately, what was said above was said by a living person. I would not have generated the post above had it not been for AI. I have too much time constraints on my hands. Thus, I actually took part in honoring those Soldiers above by doing what I did while also taking part in developing an additional tool that will eventually help writers get their jobs done.
I know this from past out-of-the-body experiences that I would not feel belittled if something similar were done to talk about my “passing.” It wouldn’t matter to me on the other side, it would be like someone writing about my character that I played in grade school during a theater play.
You have my email if you want to talk about this specific topic, about what happens on the other side and how those who passed want us to continue on. Having the experiences that I’ve had, what you’ve seen me do here when it comes to those who have passed away will continue to be what I’ll do related to them. It wouldn’t make sense to them if I were to set aside specific procedures due to their passing. It wouldn’t make sense to me if someone were to have those considerations related to me once I’ve passed that time to cross over.