AI workflow test: PowerPoint presentations

File generation with AI is possible (here's an Edaith overview of current chatbot capabilities), but it still needs a lot of your input and refinement if you're looking to do above-average work. Here's a test I did making PowerPoint documents.

I gave Claude and ChatGPT all the content for the Systematic Problem Solving Workshop (45-min) in a Word document .docx—also works with .pdf. 

RESULTS

Design quality

The outcome was substandard with ChatGPT and acceptable with Claude, but in the style of banal computer-generated templates. Depending on your audience and purpose (if the need for design quality is low), they could be usable.

Accuracy

With a significant amount of contextual and curated data provided, the content included in the presentation was accurately represented, as requested in my prompt. No additional information was included (although if I had requested elaboration in the prompt it could have found information online and added it).

Communication

Claude generated 12 slides. ChatGPT made 10 slides.

Both did a good job of communicating key points, but there wasn't a slide that was memorable because of its originality or presentation, which comes back to the design quality.

 

Outputs by Claude and ChatGPT compared to the Edaith Systematic Problem Solving Workshop Kit PowerPoint presentation.

WORKFLOW OPPORTUNITIES

Time saving

If you've created a report or brief and need a quick start for putting together a presentation this could be a solution to save you some time.

It takes on the initial slide creation task, but you'll need to spend a decent amount of time working on the design aspects, depending on how much attention you can pay to to the importance of aesthetics in your work context.

Building on original work

Like with generative text, this works best with ideas we have conceptualised, providing specific instructions about what we'd like done with it.