Tokui

About the book AI is upon us, poised to wreak havoc on virtually every labor sector. Humanity’s saving grace, we are told, is that we’re creative, whereas AI is not. This book, by noted AI Ph.D, and internationally recognized award-winning musician and AI artist, asserts that AI proposes a new creative field of fostering myriad ancillary forms of creativity, and that these forms of ＂alternative intelligence＂ propose a creative renaissance and prosperous future. The book functions as a sort of artist’s notebook, how Tokui came to his understandings from creating using AI, topical examples from AI in creative industries, common mistakes to avoid in understanding the problems before us, fun anecdotal ways for understanding creativity and AI from literature, music, and painting history, and apparent contradictions with how we, as a society, tend to approach creative practices. The book frees us from preconceptions about what we need to do to move forward, creatively, in an age of AI, with specific examples from leading creatives using AI, including detailed explanations based on the author’s own work. Surfing human creativity with AI - a user’s guide is a fun read, and a gateway to a meta-universe of new meta-universes where each of us can explore and thrive.