Artificial Intelligence Research [electronic resource] : 4th Southern African Conference, SACAIR 2023, Muldersdrift, South Africa, December 4–8, 2023, Proceedings /

Responsible and Ethical AI track -- Emerging AI Discourses and Policies in the EU: Implications for Evolving AI Governance -- Intergenerational Justice as Driver for Responsible AI -- AI Literacy: A Primary Good -- Exploring the ethical and societal concerns of Generative AI in Internet of Things (IoT) environments -- Warfare in the Age of AI: A Critical Evaluation of ArkinÕs Case for Ethical Autonomy in Unmanned Systems -- Socio-technical and human-centered AI track -- The decision criteria used by large organisations in South Africa for adopting Artificial Intelligence -- Let’s play games: Using no-code AI to reduce human cognitive load during AI solution development -- Algorithmic, Data Driven and Symbolic AI -- Unit-Based Genetic Algorithmic Approach for Optimal Multipurpose Batch Plant Scheduling -- Investigating the extent and usability of webtext available in South Africa’s official languages -- Voice Conversion for Stuttered Speech, Instruments, Unseen Languages and Textually Described Voices -- Extending Defeasible Reasoning Beyond Rational Closure -- Sequence Based Deep Neural Networks for Channel Estimation in Vehicular Communication Systems -- Comparative Study of Image Resolution Techniques in the Detection of Cancer Using Neural Networks -- Investigating Frequent Pattern-based Models for Improving Community Policing in South Africa -- Financial Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Emerging Markets: The Application of Deep Learning to Improve Determinants -- Viability of Convolutional Variational Autoencoders for Lifelong Class Incremental Similarity Learning -- PuoBERTa: Training and evaluation of a curated language model for Setswana -- Hierarchical Text Classification using Language Models with Global Label-wise Attention Mechanisms -- Multimodal Misinformation Detection in a South African Social Media Environment -- Improving Semi-Supervised Learning in Generative Adversarial Networks -- Impacts of Architectural Enhancements on Sequential Recommendation Models -- A comparative study of over-sampling techniques as applied to seismic events.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Southern African Conference on Artificial Intelligence Research, SACAIR 2023, held in Muildersdrift, South Africa, in December 2023. The 22 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Responsible and Ethical AI Track; Socio-Technical and Human-Centered AI Track; Algorithmic, and Data Driven and Symbolic AI.