[P] We finally got Text-to-PowerPoint working!! (Generative AI for Slides ✨)

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 :)

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ObiWanCanShowMe t1_j1zl4v2 wrote

The future is going to be very generic.

This is super cool though.

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Just_CurioussSss t1_j1zo8yc wrote

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?

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Franck_Dernoncourt t1_j207fc3 wrote

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ramblinginternetnerd t1_j208mxh wrote

ChatBCG

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.

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TheTrueBlueTJ t1_j20sco5 wrote

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.

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Ill_Rip_9038 t1_j20sg21 wrote

This is awesome! How did you make the demo video, btw? I really like it

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FallUpJV t1_j20ti8i wrote

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 !

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ahm_rimer t1_j20z322 wrote

Your product is nice but your demo video is killer. The BGM especially.

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killver t1_j2123h0 wrote

I was so waiting for someone to do this, hope it works well.

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Ok-Perception8269 t1_j218ejp wrote

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!

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Photocurrent t1_j21bjnm wrote

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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shadowknight094 t1_j21iw3u wrote

What does chatbcg stand for? Also how much training time and money did it take to build this model?

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120133127 t1_j21uk03 wrote

Lmao you mean ChatIntegreon 😂

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mikekoenigs t1_j22djlz wrote

I pasted some really easy stuff in here. Got meh. Love the idea. Implementation a 1. Love to see more!

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Competitive_Coffeer t1_j22jrp5 wrote

Replying to seventyducks (#1,133,217)

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.

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Longjumping_Essay498 t1_j22mx0g wrote

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

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mox1438 t1_j232xgo wrote

Can it adapt to a Slide-Master or a set Theme?

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Insighteous t1_j23rpgd wrote

Well. It is nice. But in no way it has the quality of a PowerPoint made by one BCG / McKinsey Consultant.

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db_car_days t1_j23txsv wrote

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.

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tysam_and_co t1_j26t3fs wrote

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?

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camwiththecamera t1_j2eypni wrote

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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