Andreas W. Muller presented a session about AI Assist. The title was “MAXQDA’s AI Assist: Support your Coding with AI Assist.” AI assist is an add-on to MAXQDA 24. It uses large language models to create summaries of documents, coded segments, and more. AI Assist can also generate new subcodes and explanations. AI Assist suggests new codes that can be incorporated or merged into existing code system. Muller used the tool to identify potential codes and demonstrated how refining the code definition improved results. Muller suggests reviewing and refining before merging AI-generated codes into your codebook. Muller also used AI Assist to summarize segments of the text. AI Assist can also be used to suggest new codes! Muller emphasized that AI Assist is an assistant, but “it is never a good idea to expect an assistant to do all your work.”
