AI-powered presentation creation at work?<\/a><\/p>\nAfter all, slide decks and presentations sit at the center of knowledge work. Regardless of your industry, you\u2019ll likely find yourself creating and delivering a presentation at some point within your career, especially if you work as a consultant, project professional, business development professional, or product manager, or within leadership and management.<\/p>\n
Essentially, this would be within your remit for any role that requires you to visually and clearly translate your ideas into something succinct enough to quickly scan and understand.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why this OpenAI acquisition is significant. It takes what can be a messy process into something that not only reduces the time required, but also makes presentation creation easier for non-designers, time-strapped project managers, and other professionals who must produce presentations monthly, quarterly, or even more frequently.<\/p>\n
One thing\u2019s certain: there\u2019s no shortage of AI presentation and slide deck generators to create polished presentations. <\/p>\n
There are tools like Microsoft’s PowerPoint, which has AI-enabled features. There’s Beautiful.ai, Prezi AI, and a host of other lesser-known tools. <\/p>\n
Even Canva enables non-design professionals to create beautifully polished presentations. <\/p>\n
But with this OpenAI acquisition, what we\u2019re potentially seeing is presentation deliverables becoming integrated into one of the most popular LLMs that we use every day. ChatGPT already has the capability to design interactive presentations. It also has a presentations plugin, so it will be interesting to see what this acquisition of NextSlide will bring to the product.<\/p>\n
So if an AI tool can take complex scattered fragments of information and condense them into a presentation, where does the human value come in?<\/p>\n
OpenAI\u2019s acquisition of NextSlide is one of several moves across the AI ecosystem that could reduce the administrative layer of white-collar work<\/p>\n
gettyThe Skills White-Collar Professionals Need Now<\/p>\n
AI reduces the complexity of a knowledge worker\u2019s workload and cuts the admin time it takes to go from idea to execution and delivery. That being said, human judgment is still paramount. As more employers adopt next-generation technology, this will mean that yet another layer of human administrative work will be eliminated. <\/p>\n
Therefore, a professional\u2019s value will increasingly depend less on who can create the best, most interactive slide deck, because everyone will have access to the same capabilities.<\/p>\n
The focus will be more on human interpretation and judgment, and using enterprise context and its nuances to inform decision-making. Instead of relying entirely on what the AI output delivers, the core skills and considerations would include fact-checking, ensuring alignment with what the end-user audience needs, and making sure the right context is pulled.<\/p>\n
We also need to think about enterprise-level controls to ensure that only the right and necessary information is accessible within a chatbot workspace. We cannot afford to have random pieces of information that are meant to be confidential and have restricted user access surfaced accidentally.<\/p>\n
As OpenAI continues to add to its ecosystem of workplace applications, there are two specific competencies and skills I believe are most critical, especially for junior workers whose primary work depends on executing these very tasks:<\/p>\n
Critical thinking. Knowing how to evaluate the output of AI is important, as well as knowing which context matters for the presentation and how to include the right context to get the best result without hallucinations.Persuasion skills. It\u2019s one thing to create a stunning slide deck. It\u2019s a totally different ball game to actually deliver that presentation in a way that persuades, negotiates, and leads your audience to take action. <\/p>\n
Whether that means closing a deal, agreeing on a strategy and next steps forward, or launching a new initiative, human skills remain even more valuable. Persuasion and communication become even more important because the most beautiful AI-generated presentation can be a total flop if you don’t know how to articulate your ideas clearly and in a memorable way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When AI slide decks become a commodity, the skills that matter most are communication, negotiation, and critical thinking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[66656,580,28665,66528,157,66657],"class_list":["post-134187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-ai-presentation","tag-chatgpt","tag-chatgpt-powerpoint","tag-nextslide","tag-openai","tag-openai-bought-a-slide-deck-startup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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