Submitted by Mastersulm t3_zxab4m in MachineLearning
Hey everyone!
Joe and I are students at Stanford, and we finally got a breakthrough on our side project.
We call it:
ChatBCG: Generative AI for Slides ✨
or: Text-to-PowerPoint
(Hope it will replace consultants one day :D)
Check out our launch Tweet for more info:
https://twitter.com/SilasAlberti/status/1608037989623414791
Do you have any feedback? We would really appreciate it :)
Every PowerPoint I've seen has already been pretty generic 🤣
Thats sad. There very good presentations out there.
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I laughed too hard at this.I feel like every other time I've dealt with McKinsey or Bain I got told the obvious... or someone just BSed some stuff together and struck out a "strategy" that had HUGE holes in it. "Ohh... so you want us to go after a competitor's industry with a product that's antithetical to the current business model and company reputation... so targetting users where there's VERY high user friction"
EUGH... good product, questionable positioning. Probably should've costed things down a little bit and not tried for the most premium of users.
am consultant, would happily have chatbcg make my powerpoints
Chat bots are confidently incorrect at times...
Just like consultants. It's a good fit.
Ramble on good friend.
Thoughts:
- Fun project, good for you for making it. =) Not a criticism but I'd try to get to the root of what a presentation is and explore that more fully.
- Consider shifting to integrating mind maps with AI instead. I use Mindnode and Scapple to map out my thinking, then export to Powerpoint by exporting to OPML, importing into OmniOutliner, then exporting to Powerpoint format from there. Imagine starting a new mind map, asking a question, and seeing the AI generate branching nodes, exploring possibilities not considered. You could refresh a branch by clicking on a node and asking it to generate new options. Todoist has a tool that does this for coming up with task ideas.
- And/or, explore how Amazon eschews presentations for 6-page memos focused on narrative. AI is so much smarter than Powerpoint - could you generate smarter structured thinking and use GPT-3 to generate an argument in memo form? See https://www.workingbackwards.com
- Your current product would dovetail nicely with IA Presenter, a radically simplified presentation app currently in beta. I don't think they'll have an API for it but who knows, it might give you some additional ideas. Site: https://ia.net/presenter
- One other thing -- could you make a tool that lets a user upload an existing Powerpoint and see it improved in various ways? Maybe have it load into a web UI and designate blocks for AI refreshing (e.g. images, copy), with the AI reading the existing copy or doing img2img on the graphics?
Anyway, good luck with it!
Not OP but just want to say that these are some really interesting ideas, thanks for sharing!
I appreciate that is a better overall state of presentations you are aiming for. That said, that ain't where the market is today. Text to PPT is the way to go. Then use that to improve per those suggestions. Lowest user friction approach. Don't create a product that they inherently won't use the output of due to lack of familiarity and ability to edit.
Sure, glad you liked :-)
This might sound weird, but how did you come up with these ideas? like what kind of media do you consume/read/do on daily basis lol.
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Yes - basic PPT to slick presentation would be really useful, I like writing content but the layout formatting is boring as far as I'm concerned
Remember when Prezi was being used everywhere?
I too remember those 6 weeks
Still feeling dizzy
I miss prezi lol
I won an award for best graduate student presentation at my university... Largely because I used Prezi haha
I wholeheartedly don't
So basically you have a template for a detailed ChatGPT prompt that this input gets inserted into and then it creates textual content for each slide while you look at this text and automatically find images that match the content and boom that's a presentation? I don't know if I would call that groundbreaking or a "breakthrough", but it's certainly a cool toy example that inherits all the ChatGPT issues like being confidently wrong sometimes.
I think they meant a personal "breakthrough" in terms of getting their project up and running, not that they consider it an important breakthrough in the world of technology...
yep, this can be hacked up very quickly with ChatGPT and pandoc. nothing to see here.
Consulting firms on suicide watch
Better soo
This is awesome! How did you make the demo video, btw? I really like it
Seconding!
Looks like the gens are very generic and limited, cool idea though
Completely useless product without a need. Generic result thats just cringe for any professional to look at. You think that will convice a room full of professionals that what you're presenting is quality. Maybe ok for 6-12grade half assed presentations.
Sorry to be a bit short with you, but i just see way too much tallent going into gimmic applications like this. Therr are actual problems AI can HELP people with. Making powerpoints is not one of them.
That's funny I searched for such a tool not so long ago on Google thinking it already existed, guess I was a few weeks early !
Your product is nice but your demo video is killer. The BGM especially.
Nice and possibly useful down the line. If it's of any interest, there was some work done on the problem of "text-to-powerpoint" some years ago (https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09308, https://github.com/korymath/talk-generator/tree/dev). Being tailored to the "improvised TED talk" format however it wasn't really trying to do a serious job. It's essentially a random content generator doing a random walk on the ConceptNet graph and scraping data related to the input text (topic or title). It relies on templates, so no juicy GPT action. The demo website is still up.
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The application is limitless! Have you had a problem with inaccurate translations from complex prompts as demands for text-to-powerpoint grow? What are you doing for its semantics?
This is awesome!
holy shit this is phenomenal
I was so waiting for someone to do this, hope it works well.
What does chatbcg stand for? Also how much training time and money did it take to build this model?
It's a joke, "Boston Consulting Group", but also "Bi-modal Conditional Generation"
Basically zero. They used ChatGPT, which is free for now
Lmao you mean ChatIntegreon 😂
I pasted some really easy stuff in here. Got meh. Love the idea. Implementation a 1. Love to see more!
Excellent work!
Wow, this is insanely great for factual things. I tried to generate for oops python concepts. The texts were good but the images it picked was not of python codes. But great solution, great start
Can it adapt to a Slide-Master or a set Theme?
Well. It is nice. But in no way it has the quality of a PowerPoint made by one BCG / McKinsey Consultant.
This is a cool idea, but why do we have to sign in to the website to use cached prompts? Is this just an onboarding marketing post?
You can do other things than cached prompts.
I tested it out and the concept is cool, I would agree that there needs to be a framework for chatgpt to get more detailed info. I would also think that making it a 10 slide minimum is a good start then go back and finish editing those slides that was generated. Kinda like ai writers. Coming from a gardening education niche.
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ObiWanCanShowMe t1_j1zl4v2 wrote
The future is going to be very generic.
This is super cool though.