Scholarly use of A.I. tools

Artificial Intelligence has long been a part of research and outreach activities at UVic.

Artificial Intelligence in its various forms and applications, such as machine and deep learning, has long been a part of research and outreach activities at UVic. There are many stakeholders on campus who are actively applying A.I. technology in their research or who are furthering fundamental research in this area. 

The Matrix Institute aligns research at the University of Victoria that concerns applied data science, including A.I.

The UVic AI Club is a university-based organization that facilitates students by providing space for those interested in artificial intelligence to learn, grow, and succeed along their educational journey.

Coursework and projects centered around A.I. technologies such as machine learning have been part of the UVic Libraries portfolio for a number of years.

Predating users of ChatGPT's ventures in mimicking the writing styles of popular authors, Tiffany Chan, a senior developer at University of Victoria Libraries' Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC), trained a bot to write in the voice of Grant Allen, a little-known Victorian writer in 2018.

Also at the DSC, a workshop on Machine Learning with Python is being taught since 2019.