Ten Nights in Vegas: The End of World As We Know it?

Within just hours of arriving in Las Vegas, I developed my usual earworm …“One Night in Bangkok”.? (Thanks Mike Tyson.)

But within just a few days of conference prattle the earworm had some company. Company in the form of worrisome thoughts. Is AI the beginning of the end? Can a machine be clever? What if it really isn't an angel siding up to me?

So I put it to the test and asked ChatGPT to rewrite the song.

Here's what I got:

Viva Las Vegas, neon setting

And the city knows that the city is betting

The high rollers come from all around the world

In a town with everything, no need for pearls

Time flies, doesn't seem a minute

Since the last slot machine hit the jackpot limit

All change, don't you know that when you

Play in this town, there's no ordinary venue

It's New York or LA or Monte Carlo

Or this place!

One night in Vegas and the world's your playground

The casinos are temples but the chips ain't free

You'll find a star in every golden hotel lounge

And if you're lucky then the star's a she

I can feel a winner sliding up to me

One casino's very like another

When you're playing the slots, brother

It's a thrill, it's a score, it's really such a pity

To be looking at the machine, not looking at the city

Whaddya mean?

Ya seen one dazzling, bustling, sparkling town

Drinks, girls, music, sweet

Some are living it up in the penthouse suite

Get your game on, you're talking to a tourist

Whose every move's among the surest

I get my kicks at the blackjack table, honey

One night in Vegas makes a rich man humbler

Not much between losing and winning big

One night in Vegas and the tough guys fumble

Can't be too careful with your gambling gig

I can feel the dealer standing next to me

Sin City's gonna be the witness

To the ultimate test of luck and fitness

This thrills me more than any

Rolling dice or spinning roulette wheel frenzy

And thank God I'm only playing the game, not controlling it

I don't see you guys rating

The kind of hand I'm anticipating

I'd let you watch, I would invite you

But the cards we play would not excite you

So you better go back to your bars, your clubs,

Your strip shows

One night in Vegas and the world's your playground

The casinos are temples but the chips ain't free

You'll find a star in every golden hotel lounge

A little gambling, a little history

I can feel a winner sliding up to me

One night in Vegas makes a rich man humbler

Not much between losing and winning big

One night in Vegas and the tough guys fumble

Can't be too careful with your gambling gig

I can feel the dealer standing next to me.

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Generated in a matter of seconds, I frantically began to cut and paste these clever lyrics into google. Nothing. Then bing. Nothing. Even duck duck go. Nothing. Surely this must have been scraped from a human entry. Weird Al strikes again!?!?!!

So to anyone reading this, please find these lyrics somewhere. Anywhere. And reassure the world that a human being is behind it. Otherwise we really might just be doomed. (Or best case scenario, just out of a job).