Creating a PowerPoint presentation with AI can significantly speed up the process and provide you with a solid foundation for your content. AI tools can assist with tasks like generating content, designing slides, finding relevant images, and optimizing formatting.

Here’s a breakdown of how to use AI to create a PowerPoint presentation:

1. AI-Powered Presentation Tools & Plugins

These tools are specifically designed to help you create presentations with AI assistance:

•  Microsoft PowerPoint Designer: PowerPoint’s built-in AI tool can suggest layout ideas, design themes, and even add animations to your slides. It also assists in finding relevant images from the web.

  • How to Use: Open PowerPoint and add some text to your slide. On the “Design” tab, look for “Design Ideas”. These will provide templates based on your text.

•  SlidesAI: A plugin for Google Slides that utilizes AI to generate presentations from text. You can create presentations on any topic and customize the design of your slides.

  • How to Use: Install the SlidesAI plugin to Google Slides and use the “Generate slides” option to create a new presentation.

•  Beautiful.ai: A web-based presentation tool that offers AI-powered design and layouts. It focuses on creating visually appealing and professionally designed presentations.

  • How to Use: Sign up for Beautiful.ai and use their AI-powered builder to quickly generate a presentation.

•  Tome: A tool focused on story telling, Tome can generate visually appealing layouts with a focus on visual narratives.

  • How to Use: Sign up for Tome and use the AI prompts to quickly build a visually focused presentation.

•  Gamma: Gamma is a web-based presentation tool with an emphasis on text to slideshow, turning written ideas into dynamic visual displays.

  * How to Use: Sign up for Gamma and use their AI prompts to create and display a slideshow.

2. AI Text Generation Tools (Large Language Models):

•  Function: LLMs like Chat, Bard, and Claude can assist you with generating text content for your slides.

•  How to Use:

  •  Brainstorm Content: Ask the AI to suggest key points for your presentation, or generate ideas for specific sections.

  •  Generate Text: Provide prompts to the AI to generate descriptive text, summaries, or bullet points.

  •  Rephrase and Optimize: Ask the AI to rephrase existing text to be more concise or engaging, or to generate different variations of text.

•  Examples:

  •  Chat

  •  Google Bard

  •  Claude

3. AI Image Generation Tools:

•  Function: These tools can generate images that you can use in your presentations.

•  How to Use: Describe the image you need and the AI will generate various options, or use an already existing image to modify with the AI software.

•  Examples:

  •  DALL-E 2 (by OpenAI)

  •  Midjourney

  •  Adobe Firefly

  •  Stable Diffusion

4. AI-Powered Research Tools:

•  Function: AI can help you research information for your presentation and summarize key findings.

•  How to Use: Ask the AI to find relevant articles, research papers, or data, then ask it to summarize or extract key points.

•  Examples:

  •  Chat

  •  Google Scholar

  •  Elicit

  •  Research Rabbit

Steps for Creating a PowerPoint with AI:

1. Define Your Topic & Audience: Start by defining the topic, key message, and target audience.

2. Brainstorm Key Points: Use AI tools (LLMs) to brainstorm key points and generate a basic outline for your presentation.

3. Generate Content: Use AI tools (LLMs) to generate text for your slides based on the key points. Use clear and precise prompts to get the best results.

4. Choose a Presentation Tool: Use PowerPoint Designer, or use one of the AI-powered presentation tools mentioned above (SlidesAI, Beautiful.ai, Tome, or Gamma).

5. Customize Layout & Design: Use the AI tools for design, and also use your judgement to customize templates, themes, and colors.

6. Add Visuals: Use AI image generation tools, or search for relevant images on the web (be mindful of copyright), and insert them to the slides.

7. Review and Edit: Review the generated slides and text carefully, making sure the message is clear and error free.

8. Practice Your Delivery: Practice your presentation delivery to ensure a confident and smooth presentation.

Important Notes:

•  Human Review: Always review and edit content generated by AI tools.

•  Use AI as a Tool: Use AI as a starting point to help create a high quality presentation. It is important to add your own style, expertise, and information.

•  Accuracy: Verify information generated by AI.

•  Copyright: When using AI-generated images, be aware of any copyright rules.

•  Privacy: Be aware of any privacy policies when using AI tools.

Using AI can significantly speed up the process of creating a PowerPoint presentation, but the most effective presentations will still require your creativity and input.