The Price of Automated Presence
Outsourcing a daily digital presence to an AI proxy might save time, but the process erases genuine identity, memory, and relationships by replacing human friction with an automated consensus.
Articles - Petra Palusova
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The Sovereign User: Trading Technological Victimhood for Personal Agency
A perspective on technological victimhood and an analysis of modern habits. The text focuses on strict personal boundaries and the status of innovation as a human trait.
The Innovation Theatre
Is the tech industry trapped in a self-referential loop of constant spectacle? An exploration of the myth of disruption, the value of infrastructure maintenance, and how to build technology for the long horizon.
After Generative AI: Agentic Intelligence and the Systems of Delegated Action
Agentic AI marks the transition from generative systems that produce language to autonomous agents that act in the world. This article explores the technical architecture, philosophical implications, and governance challenges that arise when machines begin executing human intent.
The Anatomy of Continuity in Modern Business
Essay reflecting on how continuity in business strategy persists beneath change, shaping direction, coherence, and decision-making long after visible forms have shifted.
Recursive Strategy: How Intelligent Systems Think Through Us
A conceptual essay on recursive strategy in intelligent systems, exploring the strategist’s new role inside learning environments shaped by algorithms and real-time inference.
How the East Does Tech: Lessons from a World Western Logic Can’t Fully Map
Exploring how Eastern approaches to tech challenge Western assumptions about innovation, speed, and meaning.
Context Engineering and the New Frontiers of Intelligence
As AI surpasses humans in focused tasks, a new kind of intelligence becomes critical: contextual intelligence. This article explores the human capacity to frame meaning, define purpose, and shape systems in which AI operates.
Learning Without a Teacher: Q-Learning as a Mirror of Mind
Q-learning, by learning through trial, error, and interaction rather than instruction, acts as a digital mirror of human curiosity and adaptation.
Breaking Borders: Citizenship, Identity, and Justice in Synthetic Realities
Synthetic space reshapes identity and belonging, emphasizing shared values and participation over geographical boundaries. In the article we present a reevaluation of legal frameworks to foster inclusivity through universal synthetic citizenship.
Gaussian Splatting with Physical Dynamics Awareness – Use in Virtual Reality
Technical procedure of the VR-GS system for interactive 3D experiences combining Gaussian Splatting and real-time physics simulation.
Technology as a Life Form
About the overlooked impact of technology on human perception, society, and existence. Challenging technological somnambulism, urging a conscious engagement with the artificial worlds we create and inhabit.
Evolving into Synthetic Reality: Multiperspective on Simulation and Virtuality
Philosophical inquiry examining real experiences vs. artificial simulations. Significance of authentic engagement with life and the ongoing relevance of these ideas in the context of contemporary mass emergence of virtuality.
AI Prototyping — Experimental, Illusory and Comparative Methods
Processes of AI prototyping, exploring experimental, illusory, and comparative methods to refine the AI systems design.
Open Source, Open Standards and System Interoperability — Relevance for XR
About open source and open standards being the backbone for system interoperability, and its role in universal accessibility in virtual ecosystems.
Tech Platforms, Digital Economy and the Fallacy of Techno-Feudalism
The article explores the concept of techno-feudalism in comparison to traditional feudal systems, and highlights both the opportunities and challenges of tech platforms in current digital economy.
Bias in Artificial Intelligence
Inherited from humans, bias in artificial intelligence may cause unreliable system processing. What are the types and examples of bias, and some ways to navigate and minimize it?
Charting the Course for the Year Ahead: Trends of 2023 and Predictions for 2024
The 2023 in XR has seen a remarkable innovation and market shifts. Despite challenges and fluctuations, the industry's resilience is evident. Read an in-depth analysis of key events and trends, and what they may point this upcoming year of 2024.
Engineering Sensory Landscapes in Synthetic Space
About synthetic space, engineering of sensory landscapes and visualization of informational reality in 3D XR.
Intelligence Augmentation – Agenda for Artificial Intelligence
Challenging the fears of AI replacing humans by emphasizing the need to focus on enhancing human-machine interactions. Promoting a human-centered approach for sustainable AI deployment and implementation of conjoint agency.