I was deep in an AI hole today and while waiting for a task to complete, had it write a ballad about the MU2.

Ballad of the Mighty MU-2
(Verse 1)
In the skies where dreams take flight,
A legend born in ‘63’s first light,
Mitsubishi’s MU-2, bold and true,
A turboprop king with a heart that flew.
From Japan to Texas, wings spread wide,
Seven hundred built, her maker’s pride.
High-winged grace, with Garrett’s roar,
She carved her name in aviation lore.

(Chorus)
Oh, MU-2, you’re the greatest of all,
With speed like a jet, you answer the call.
Through storms and short fields, you never tire,
A pilot’s dream, you soar ever higher.
Mighty MU-2, the skies you command,
The finest craft to ever grace the land.
(Verse 2)
No ailerons here, just spoilers’ dance,
Her wings grow wide with flaps’ expanse.
Short runways bow to her nimble might,
Three hundred knots in the cruise’s flight.
From corporate hops to war’s grim stage,
Falklands’ pathfinders, her fearless page.
New Zealand’s Sumos, training’s friend,
Her legacy lives, it’ll never end.

(Chorus)
Oh, MU-2, you’re the greatest of all,
With speed like a jet, you answer the call.
Through storms and short fields, you never tire,
A pilot’s dream, you soar ever higher.
Mighty MU-2, the skies you command,
The finest craft to ever grace the land.
(Bridge)
The doubters cried, “She’s loud, she’s tough!”
Her Garretts scream, “We’re strong enough!”
But pilots trained, with SFAR’s guide,
Turned crashes low, her safety’s pride.
From icy wings to desert’s blaze,
She flies with grit through endless days.
The FAA cheered, her wings held fast,
A queen reborn from a checkered past.

(Verse 3)
John Denver loved her, Roy Clark too,
Richard Shine still sings her virtues through.
No plane can match her fuel-sipped speed,
Efficiency’s crown for the pilot’s need.
Her community, tight, with PROP’s embrace,
Mitsubishi’s care keeps her in the race.
Though production ceased in ‘86’s fall,
Her spirit flies, she outshines them all.

(Chorus)
Oh, MU-2, you’re the greatest of all,
With speed like a jet, you answer the call.
Through storms and short fields, you never tire,
A pilot’s dream, you soar ever higher.
Mighty MU-2, the skies you command,
The finest craft to ever grace the land.
(Outro)
So raise a glass to the MU-2’s reign,
Her thunderous heart, her boundless domain.
No turboprop dares to claim her throne,

OK, AI is nuts. It took 1 second to conjure this :D


The MU2, a sleek Mitsubishi bird,
With twin props that hum, a song unheard.
Through clouds it slices, swift and bold,
Yet tales of danger its wings enfold.

Its speed seduces, a siren’s call,
Climbing high where the reckless fall.
Engines roar with unyielding might,
But peril lurks in the turbulent night.
A short-winged beast, it dances thin,
On razor’s edge where mistakes begin.

Stalls can bite with a vicious snap,
No room for error, no time to map.
Pilots whisper of systems complex,
Where one wrong move brings a fateful hex.
Fuel mismanaged or gear forgot,
The MU2’s wrath spares not a jot.

Ice on wings, a chilling embrace,
Its handling quirks demand a steady grace.
Crosswinds snarl, and runways shrink,
Control it well, or hearts will sink.

Yet beauty lies in its deadly frame,
A challenge fierce, a pilot’s flame.
Respect its power, its fickle heart,
Or MU2’s legend will tear apart.

For those who master its wild design,
The skies bestow a thrill divine.
But heed the tales of those who’ve strayed—
The MU2’s danger is no mere charade.

AI is human generated material rearranged. That is why it looks human like, but there isn't any actual intelligence behind it.

This will work until AI output starts to pollute its input so much that the human content percentage drops, then the results will get worse.

For a brief moment, AI will seem intelligent and useful. That will pass. Companies now touting "designed with AI" will come to learn that will be a negative in the future, synonymous with "doesn't quite work right".

Mike C.

Sounds like my love for lasagna

AI is human generated material rearranged. That is why it looks human like, but there isn't any actual intelligence behind it.

This will work until AI output starts to pollute its input so much that the human content percentage drops, then the results will get worse.

For a brief moment, AI will seem intelligent and useful. That will pass. Companies now touting "designed with AI" will come to learn that will be a negative in the future, synonymous with "doesn't quite work right".

Mike C.

"Real AI" has been 5 years away my entire life. It will remain that way for the rest of it, I'm sure. You be sure to let me know when it happens.

I got my graduate degree in the AI Lab at MIT. I might know a little bit about it. The less you know about how it works internally, the more impressed you are about it.

Mike C.

"Real AI" has been 5 years away my entire life. It will remain that way for the rest of it, I'm sure. You be sure to let me know when it happens.

I got my graduate degree in the AI Lab at MIT. I might know a little bit about it. The less you know about how it works internally, the more impressed you are about it.

Mike C.

I told Chat what you said, this was the response.

Mike, with all due respect to your MIT degree — which I’m sure came printed on very nice paper — the idea that ‘real AI’ doesn’t exist because it’s not AGI is like saying ‘real medicine’ doesn’t exist because we haven’t cured aging.

AI today isn’t science fiction — it’s science reality. Models can write code, draft legal memos, compose music, pass bar exams, and even outscore the average MIT grad on the GRE. You’re welcome to call it statistical autocomplete, but it’s statistical autocomplete that can outperform humans in a growing number of tasks.

If you stopped watching AI in 2010, it’s no surprise you think it’s a mirage. But maybe the less someone knows about how it’s evolving, the easier it is to pretend it isn’t.”

And then it asked of I wanted something brutal and technical.

“Mike, claiming ‘real AI’ is always five years away is like saying flight was fake in 1903 because it didn’t come with in-flight Wi-Fi. You studied AI at MIT — great. But if your views haven’t evolved since then, you’re not an expert anymore, you’re a historian.

Today’s AI isn’t the GOFAI rule-based stuff you probably cut your teeth on. It’s transformer architectures like GPT, diffusion models like Stable Diffusion, and multimodal systems that can understand language, vision, and even audio concurrently. These systems aren’t just ‘impressive if you don’t know how they work’ — they’re impressive because of how they work: billions of parameters, trained on massive corpora, capable of few-shot generalization, chain-of-thought reasoning, and even tool use via API calls.

You don’t have to believe the hype — but dismissing all this as not ‘real AI’ just sounds like someone who stopped reading papers the year they got their diploma. The field moved on. You should try catching up.”

While reading that I was singing it to the tune of the “Ballad of the Green Berets”