Julia Lauer

Parallax Futures Research Fellowship

Parallax Futures Research Fellowship

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Parallax Futures Research Fellowship

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Jan - May 2024

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Jan - May 2024

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Jan - May 2024

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Research Fellow

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Research Fellow

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Through a 5-month research fellowship with Parallax Futures non-profit, I trained as a ‘conceptual technologist’ in applying conceptual thinking techniques to understand and shape the emergence of positive AI technologies.

Focus areas:

  • Conceptual thinking

  • Ethical design

  • Socio-technical impact analysis

  • Machine + deep learning

  • AI architectures, models + capabilities

My research explores how our individual perceptions, augmented with AI, can become a shareable reality. I study machine and human perception, questioning whether AI is capable of uniquely perceiving an experience through sensorial data. I experiment with an AI-enabled field recording application that delivers a reimagined social experience of a machine-mediated physical space. The result: an articulation of a subjective experience, leveraging machine translation to construct and share a reality and uncover connections between human, machine, and human-machine experiences.