Morgan Stanley: "the hype around generative AI may be justified and..."

[hunter]

16. Every human being is born an artist and a scientist.

Sad to say that's been beaten out of many of us.

I'm never cynical about art or science. My parents are artists who met in Hollywood and they always had day jobs related to their arts. When my dad retired from his day job with a decent union pension my parents became full time artists.

I grew up in a household of chaotic art. You never knew who you might meet in my childhood home, someone sleeping on the sofa or waiting to use the bathroom, future sports celebrities, actors, mathematicians, and social justice warriors... all arts.

But my parents' day jobs were not their art.

My wife and I live in a home stuffed to the rafters with art, books, and music. That was the environment we raised our children in.

One of our kids is a classically trained poet, an English major, and has been paid for poetry, which is possibly the least lucrative of all the arts unless you turn your poems into pop songs or advertising jingles. It's not their day job.

My wife is an artist and a scientist, got the academic degrees, has been paid for both, but not currently her day job.

My college major was Evolutionary Biology and my minor was English. Both arts, neither especially lucrative. When I met my wife we were both teaching science.

My "day job" arts were mostly lab work, construction, teaching, and hard physical labor. Honestly, the physical labor stuff was my favorite, it gave me plenty of time to think about other stuff, theories of everything, but I can't do that anymore because my body is worn out.