Events
Upcoming Events:
Workshop: Intro to Autoencoders and Model Visualization
Date: 2023/05/29, 6:30pm
Location: UVic, ECS 124
Description: An interactive introduction to autoencoders and visualizations for testing model quality. Bring your laptop!
Presentation: Battlesnake Reinforcement Learning Project
Date: 2023/06/12, 6:30pm
Location: UVic, ECS 116
Description: A detailed project presentation on how we built and trained an RL agent to play battlesnake from scratch using an AlphaZero-like self play algorithm. This will be a great presentation to help people get involved with this project and any side projects stemming from it in the future.
AI Ethics Event
Date: 2023/11/(exact day TBD)
Location: Online
Description: An all day event with multiple speakers working within technical AI alignment, policy and governance, and adjacent fields of study. If you would like to get involved or present your research, please email us.
Past Events:
Workshop: Intro to Neural Networks
Date: 2023/03/28
Location: UVic, ECS 116
Description: A beginner-friendly workshop designed to help people with little to no prior machine learning experience build and train their first neural network.
Battlesnake Hackathon and Tournament
Date: 2023/03/10-11
Location: UVic, Hickman Building
Description: We organized and hosted Victoria’s official Battlesnake Tournament, where roughly 250 programmers across the city built their automated snake bots, then competed for over $2,000 in prizes.
Canadian Undergraduate Conference on AI
Date: 2023/03/4-5
Location: Kingston, Ontario
Description: The Canadian Undergraduate Conference on AI, CUCAI, was the largest undergraduate AI conference in Canada. Members from UVic AI attended the conference and presented our reinforcement learning battlesnake project, which we won the most innovative project award for.
Multi-speaker Event: AI Safety
Date: 2023/01/29
Location: Online
Description: We hosted an online AI Safety Event with guest speakers from OpenAI, AI Governance and Safety, and Effective Altruism.
Multi-speaker Event: AI in Victoria
Date: 2022/10/4
Location: Online
Description: A series of presentations on AI from active AI researchers and enthusiasts, from technical project showcasings to social impacts of art generating AI.