AI Assistant (NVivo 15 Mac)

AI Assistant is a generative artificial intelligent tool that is embedded within NVivo to enhance your data analysis. Lumivero has an Enterprise Agreement with OpenAi which explicitly states that no data uploaded from NVivo will be used for training purposes. In addition, as part of the zero data retention policy, any data that is uploaded will be immediately deleted from Open.ai servers once it completes the requested operation. For more information, see Legal AI Usage Policy Enterprise privacy | OpenAI.

NOTE  Before utilizing the benefits of the AI assistant, read and accept the Terms of Use.

Using AI assistant, you can leverage coding suggestions and summarize texts or documents. AI Assistant options can be accessed from the following locations in NVivo:

NOTE  The AI assistant option will be greyed out if no selection has been made or if you are logged out of NVivo.

• From the top ribbon, select Home -> AI Assistant:

  

• From the context menu:

  • Using the AI Assistant: Summarize text option, you can select the required text in a document and automatically summarize the selected text in the preferred language and length. The summarized texts may be saved as annotations. For more information, see AI Assistant: Summarize Text (NVivo 15 Mac).

    

  • Using the AI Assistant: Summarize option, you can select one or more items, such as audios, videos, PDF documents, and codes, to automatically generate summaries. You can then save these summaries as linked memos for each selected item. There is also an option to select preferred summary language and length. For more information, see AI Assistant: Summarize (NVivo 15 Mac).

    

  • Using the AI Assistant: Suggest Child Codes option, you can select a code and generate child codes based on the coded content. For more information, see AI Assistant: Suggest Child Codes (NVivo 15 Mac).

    

  • Using the Autocode -> Analyze Sentiment option, you can select multiple text files and autocode sentiments in your content. For more information, see Automatically detect and code sentiment (NVivo 15 Mac).

    NOTE  This feature is available only in NVivo 15.4.0 and later versions.

Disable AI Features

Disable Via User Defaults

Users can disable AI features by updating the NVivo preference file (com.lumivero.nvivo-15.plist), located in (~/Library/Preferences/):

1. Open the terminal.

   1. Press Command + Space to open Spotlight Search.

   2. Type "Terminal" and hit Return.

   3. Click the Terminal.app icon that appears.

2. Enter the following command and hit Return.

   defaults write com.lumivero.nvivo-15 AiFeaturesDisabled -bool true

   This successfully disables the AI features.