Google Slides follows PowerPoint into AI prompt-to-deck creation
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In abstract:
- PCWorld stories Google Slides now generates full displays from easy prompts, following Microsoft PowerPoint’s lead in AI-powered deck creation.
- This characteristic saves hours by automating presentation improvement by means of interactive questioning about supply paperwork, size, tone, and visible styling preferences.
- Accessible solely to Google Workspace Enterprise/Enterprise and Google AI Professional/Extremely subscribers, representing a major productiveness development for enterprise customers.
Whereas opinions could differ relating to how efficient AI has been to extend productiveness, it’s executed a much better job serving to to get rid of busy work. Google Slides now can generate displays with only a immediate, serving to customers to simplify a job some merely despise.
Not all conferences require a proper slide presentation to accompany dialogue, however many do. Google is launching the flexibility to “generate presentation” from its Slides website, supplied that you’ve got the proper Enterprise and Enterprise Customary and Plus plans on Google Workspace, or a a Google AI Professional or AI Extremely subscription. (I’ve neither, at the moment.) In any other case, you’ll see the default slideshow view.
Immediate-to-deck is a characteristic that Microsoft has provided in PowerPoint for a while, albeit with its personal requirement for an AI subscription. In truth, PowerPoint’s “residence” display crops a giant immediate field proper on the high, asking you to get began.
What’s good about Google’s general format is the popularity that the slideshow creation course of is pushed as a lot by Slides as it’s by you. Primarily, you kick off the creation course of by prompting Slides that you simply’d like a presentation deck in a specific format for a selected objective, utilizing some specified supplies.
Google’s instance, nonetheless, used a relatively cursory immediate. Slides then (relatively than utilizing a prolonged LLM textual content interface) inserted a sequence of playing cards earlier than the person, asking for supply paperwork, size, and tone. It then created a fundamental define of the deck, with the flexibility to edit and make adjustments, in fact. From there, edits are made utilizing the standard text-based Gemini interface.
It’s an interplay Microsoft form of skips over. You’ll be able to add information to PowerPoint and use them within the creation of the deck, however I favored the best way Google seems to circle again, ask for specifics, and make its personal options.
Since many companies demand a constant type, you’ll be able to level Gemini in the direction of an earlier presentation to undertake these visible parts. We’ve seen this earlier than with issues like “Format painter” in Excel, the place the type of a specific doc is saved as a template; right here, Slides is simply pulling these parts from an earlier presentation.
Roughly 30 million to 35 million Microsoft PowerPoint displays are reportedly created or delivered worldwide every day, though that Microsoft estimate dates manner again from 2001 and doesn’t essentially embody newly authored displays. How lengthy every presentation takes to manually creator hasn’t actually been definitively nailed down, both. About two hours for an off-the-cuff inner briefing appears typical, and anyplace from 4 to 6 hours for a extra customary deck is a determine utilized by corporations like TextDeck (one other AI-generated presentation device) — whose enterprise would appear to be threatened by the brand new Slides addition.
PowerPoint can now generate an AI deck from scratch in lower than 10 minutes; I haven’t had an opportunity to check Gemini and Slides but.
The entire level of the train is that there isn’t an entire lot of complexity to all of it — you merely inform Gemini what you need, it completes the duty, and then you definitely make the ultimate adjustments. And, in fact, the proof will likely be in what it delivers, relatively than what it guarantees.
There definitely is numerous disdain for “AI slop” available in the market, and good customers will carefully scrutinize Gemini’s early work till it constantly gives steady, error-free output. Nevertheless, saving an hour or two on a job many customers hate looks as if an affordable use of AI.
As a baby born within the final century, I can bear in mind hauling out paper maps and laboriously plotting instructions. GPS and mapping purposes have made {that a} factor of the previous. I’m certain some customers will see AI-generated slides in the identical gentle.
