I can’t say the initial PowerPoint demo with Copilot building out a fifteen-slide deck to plan a child’s birthday party resonated with me personally. Perhaps there are people out there doing this, but even the thought of it is beyond anything that will ever happen in my life. That being said, I have found some personally valuable applications of PowerPoint Copilot. I received a compliment on my slides recently. This isn’t particularly noteworthy in and of itself, except for the fact that I am terrible at slide design. PowerPoint designer deserves the credit for the passible quality of my recent decks. This feature isn’t just reducing the drudgery of doing the design work, it is adding value that would not otherwise be there. I can focus on the concepts I want to convey and leverage Copilot to make their presentation more understandable for my audience.
I don’t know the extent that AI is used in the PowerPoint Rehearsal Coach, but I imagine it is and will be even more in the future. Delivering a presentation end-to-end in advance is valuable practice. I find it a useful diagnostic to highlight areas that don’t flow, or concepts that I am not adequately prepared to talk through naturally. The ease and visibility of the feature in PowerPoint makes it more likely that I will take a practice run. The post-delivery feedback is already useful, and I can see the scope and detail growing more as AI infuses further into PowerPoint.
These are examples of the value that AI is already adding to my real life. I am excited to see what else is coming.