More summer reading recommendations for financial advisers
Sheryl O'Connor,
CEO and co-founder, Income Conductor
Professional read: “The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI” (2019) by Marcus du Sautoy
Description: Can machines be as uniquely ‘creative’ as humans? How do we define ‘creativity’? In this comprehensive history of the development and evolution of AI and machine learning, mathematician Marcus de Sautoy thoughtfully addresses these questions. As AI and ‘deep learning’ evolves and is used more extensively in every aspect of our lives, we must decide whether the human creativity that results in new financial products and strategies can and will eventually be replaced by machines, and at what cost.
Leisure read: “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race” (2021) by Walter Isaacson
Description: An extremely timely account of the discovery of how nature works, from the discovery of how characteristics are passed on to subsequent generations through our DNA to the cutting-edge innovations around CRISPR and gene editing being done today that have facilitated the speedy development of the COVID-19 vaccines. By focusing on his main character, Jennifer Doudna, Isaacson shows us how the passion and threads of scientific discovery are also passed down through generations and how these innovations would never have occurred without global cooperation. Truly a lesson to learn in today’s highly competitive and ‘stealth’ world of entrepreneurship and capitalism.