ChatGPT Instead of Hours in PowerPoint: How AI Accelerated Presentation Creation

Usually a conference presentation requires hours of tinkering in PowerPoint: text alignment, color selection, block formatting, icon search. An engineer preparing a talk about Physical AI for ёPRSTCON decided to check if ChatGPT could save him from this routine. The result was surprising.

The Process: Dialog Instead of a Tool

Instead of opening PowerPoint, he described to the assistant what the presentation was about and what its structure was. Then he asked: which slides are needed, in what order, what goes on each one. ChatGPT offered a ready-made plan — from introduction to conclusions, broken down by blocks. Then for each slide he provided a prompt: visuals, text, information hierarchy. The neural network generated ready-made descriptions that could be immediately input into PowerPoint or another tool. It turned out that the most expensive part of the process — not menu clicks, but thinking about what to show in the first place.

Where AI Accelerated Work

• Content structuring — ChatGPT provided a plan in minutes that usually takes an hour of thinking
• Slide copywriting — ready-made formulations for each block, without unnecessary words
• Visual hints — recommendations on icons, colors, and element placement
• Style consistency — the assistant remembers the chosen tone and structure throughout

What Had to Be Done Manually

Not everything, of course, was automated. Final image uploading, fact-checking, personal edits — all of this required human attention. But the basic skeleton of the presentation, which usually requires hours of experimentation in PowerPoint, was ready in an evening.

What It Means

AI doesn't replace a designer, but takes on the most tedious part of the work — formatting and reformatting. For developers, engineers, and other professionals who prepare presentations infrequently, this can be a decisive factor: more time on content, less time fiddling with interfaces.