No matter what field your business serves, there are tasks we all have in common: the need to create content for presentations to generate sales or report to an invested constituency. You have the data and the templates created by your designer, but the perpetual struggle is how to get past that first blank page.
Why not ask ChatGPT to make the slides for you? Realistically, AI isn’t great at generating slideshows yet. It doesn’t always understand visual data, like graphs and charts, or how to fit information into a graphic template. It looks for patterns it recognizes and might skip over important details specific to your business. But you can train the AI how to help you get past that blank page syndrome.
First, give your AI some key context to help it succeed: upload a slideshow template that you have already created and the notes about what you want to talk about. In our last blog post, we introduced the idea of augmented generation to give your AI access to specific and relevant information.
Then give it a task it is good at: summarize these notes and pair up the content and slide template that matches it. The goal is for the AI to identify the key points that go on to each slide and help identify the graphic template that might go with that information. For example, it might suggest ideas that match an overview template vs points that belong on a timeline template. Instead of creating something from scratch, the AI is reformulating the content you’ve given it into a format that gives you a starting point. With the AI to help with organization, your job is then to edit and refine, skipping the blank pages altogether and letting you go from creator to curator.
Want to learn more? Check out our podcast: Episode #3:What is AI Really?
(art by Becka Rahn)
