Attempting to become a firm’s PowerPoint expert can result in mixed feelings for interns. It is a chance for them to demonstrate design capabilities and contribute to a team’s achievement. However, it is also a tiresome and time-consuming activity, after putting in hours of work to design, update and edit a couple of slides. These tasks do not allow much opportunity for creative thinking or intellectually challenging problem-solving.
The technological revolution of generative AI is set to reshape the role of the intern. This post will discuss how generative AI can change the game in the classical intern role of being a slide deck creator, creating room for more meaningful work and value-adding activity for the company.
Generative AI focuses on generating content, which in our case is PowerPoint presentations. It leverages deep learning, which are artificial intelligence algorithms, to replicate human creativity. Thereby, generative AI is able to analyze the content it receives and immediately create slides with little human intervention. Common tools such as Midjourney and Dall-E-2 create high-quality images, whereas a number of applications, such as Simplified, Slides AI and Beautiful AI generate complete presentations based on the input that is provided (McLean, 2023). Reduction of hours spent on manually designing and formatting slides, consistent results compared to varying human designer output, and personalized output that is programmed to align with the organization, can be expected from generative AI.
As a result, interns become free to explore more meaningful work as they have more time to come up with novel ideas, think critically, and engage in mentally stimulating work. Furthermore, internships focus on being a learning experience instead of a formatting course. Not only interns themselves, but also the companies they work for benefit of an engaged and motivated intern that can put his effort into adding novel perspectives and ideas to the team.
McLean, D. (2023). 6 Best AI Presentation Tools in 2023 (Compared). Elegant Themes Blog. https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/business/best-ai-presentation-tools#1-simplified
