Best AI Presentation Maker (Compared ALL 21 tools)
TLDRThe video script explores various AI-powered presentation tools, highlighting their limitations and potential. It critiques tools like Slidebean and Visme for their lack of innovation and inconsistency in AI image generation. The script also discusses platforms like Slides AI, Prezo, Plusdocs, and Tome App, which show promise but have limitations in character limits, text condensation, and following instructions. The review expresses skepticism about topic-based presentations and the practicality of 'text to slide' features. It concludes with a note of anticipation for Microsoft's CoPilot, indicating a hopeful outlook for future advancements in the field.
Takeaways
- 🔍 AI in presentation tools is an emerging feature with room for improvement.
- 📈 21 tools were tested, with only 8 showing slightly better AI capabilities.
- 🎨 Visme's AI image generator produces inconsistent results, unsuitable for professional use.
- 📊 Slides AI transforms text into presentations but has limitations like character caps and slide number specifications.
- 📂 Prezo, despite being free, tends to overuse text and can present incorrect information.
- 📝 Plusdocs has a restrictive free plan and produces text-heavy slides lacking clarity.
- 🚀 Tome App recognizes headers well but sometimes crams too much text onto a single slide.
- 📌 Sendsteps allows text input or document uploads but its output often misrepresents content.
- 💡 Topic-to-presentation AI features feel random and lack the purpose of conveying researched information.
- 🔑 CoPilot by Microsoft shows promise with integration of OpenAI's Dall-E for AI-powered image creation.
- 🌟 The future of AI in presentation software looks hopeful, with advancements like CoPilot on the horizon.
Q & A
What AI features are being explored in the transcript?
-The AI features explored include turning text into presentations, creating slides from text, AI-adjusting text, and making AI images.
How many tools were tested for AI features in the transcript?
-21 tools were tested for AI features.
What was the general impression of the AI features in the tested tools?
-The AI features in the tested tools were often seen as an afterthought rather than a key feature, with some tools lacking significant AI capabilities or offering functions that were underwhelming.
What was the issue with Slidebean's 'Arrange with AI' button?
-The 'Arrange with AI' button in Slidebean was criticized for simply shuffling elements around without offering the expected innovation.
How did the AI image generator in Visme perform?
-Visme's AI image generator produced inconsistent images, making it unsuitable for professional use, and was compared to a toddler's crayon art.
What was the limitation of Slides AI's free plan?
-The free plan of Slides AI had a 2,500-character cap, which might make manual creation almost as easy due to the limited input allowed.
What were the issues found with Prezo's handling of large documents?
-Prezo tended to overuse text instead of using concise bullet points and sometimes presented incorrect information by assigning paragraphs to the wrong slides.
How did Plusdocs perform in comparison to other text-to-presentation tools?
-Plusdocs was similar to Slides AI but had a more restrictive free plan, limiting input to only 1,000 characters. It also produced text-heavy slides that lacked clarity.
What was the main critique of the topic-to-presentation AI feature?
-The topic-to-presentation AI feature was seen as unhelpful and random because it creates presentations based on a keyword or short topic without proper research, which is essential for communicating information accurately.
What was the outcome of testing Beautiful AI's text-to-slide feature with a specific prompt?
-When tested with a prompt to create a table of contents with specific bullet points, Beautiful AI failed to accurately represent the table of contents on the slide.
What is the general verdict on the AI features in presentation software as discussed in the transcript?
-The general verdict is that the current AI features in presentation software are underwhelming, but there is optimism for the future, particularly with upcoming tools like Microsoft's CoPilot.
Outlines
🤖 AI in Presentation Tools: A Preliminary Exploration
This paragraph discusses the exploration of AI features in presentation tools, highlighting the various capabilities such as turning text into presentations, creating slides from text, AI-adjusting text, and making AI images. The author tested AI features across 21 tools and found that 13 of them treated AI as an afterthought rather than a core feature. Some tools lacked significant AI capabilities, while others had functions that were underwhelming. The author narrows down the list to 8 promising tools with slightly better AI integration but warns that the current state of AI in presentations is not yet up to revolutionary standards. The paragraph also touches on the similarities between many presentation tools, such as the 'text document to presentation' AI function, and provides a brief overview of Slides AI, Prezo, Plusdocs, and Tome App, discussing their limitations and potential for future development.
📉 Testing AI Presentation Tools: Hits and Misses
The second paragraph delves into the author's hands-on testing of various AI presentation tools, including Sendsteps and CoPilot. The author finds that while these tools have promising concepts, their execution often falls short, with issues such as mislabeling content, failing to capture the essence of the input document, and producing lackluster results. The paragraph also addresses the skepticism around topic-to-presentation AI features, questioning the usefulness of creating presentations from short topics or keywords without proper research. The author shares personal experiences with tools like Slidesgo and Beautiful AI, noting that while visually appealing, the presentations generated often lack substance and relevance. The paragraph concludes with a brief mention of other AI features like text to slide and AI edit, which, despite their innovative nature, have not yet reached a level of practical usefulness.
🚧 AI Presentation Tools: A Work in Progress
In this paragraph, the author reflects on the limitations and potential of AI presentation tools, acknowledging that while the current offerings may be underwhelming, there is hope for the future. The author discusses the free plan of Tome App, which offers a limited number of AI credits, and expresses a cautious optimism about Microsoft's upcoming CoPilot. The paragraph ends with a note on the author's overall verdict, which is a polite rejection of the current AI features in presentation software. The author maintains a positive outlook, looking forward to advancements that may eventually make these tools more valuable and effective.
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Keywords
💡AI features
💡Presentation tools
💡Text-to-presentation
💡AI image generator
💡AI-edit
💡Topic-to-presentation
💡Text to slide
💡CoPilot
💡Innovation
💡Efficiency
Highlights
AI features in presentation tools are being explored, including turning text into presentations and creating slides from text.
21 tools were tested for AI features, with 13 treating AI as an afterthought rather than a core feature.
Slidebean's 'Arrange with AI' button was found to be lacking in innovation, merely shuffling elements around.
Visme's AI image generator produced inconsistent images, making it unsuitable for professional use.
8 tools showed slightly better AI capabilities but did not offer groundbreaking advancements.
Many presentation tools have similar 'text document to presentation' AI functions.
Slides AI, an extension for Google Slides, has limitations such as a character cap and the need to specify slide numbers.
Prezo, launched in December 2022, is free and can handle large documents but tends to overuse text and can present incorrect information.
Prezo's 'AI edit' feature aims to enhance user experience but did not perform well in tests.
Plusdocs has a similar AI presentation maker to Slides AI but has a restrictive free plan and produced text-heavy slides.
Tome App, introduced in March 2022, is adept at recognizing headers but often crams too much text onto individual slides.
Sendsteps allows text input up to 3,000 characters or direct document uploads but produced a lackluster final output.
CoPilot is being tested by a select group of enterprise companies and aims to turn Word documents into PowerPoint presentations.
The text-to-presentation feature seems unimpressive, useful only in urgent situations where quality may be secondary to speed.
Topic-to-presentation AI features feel random and misaligned with the purpose of presentations, which is to communicate researched information.
AI presentation makers like SlidesGo, when given a single prompt, are not yet capable of creating valuable presentations.
The 'text to slide' feature, while novel, often fails to create slides as intended and lacks practical usefulness.
AI edit features in tools like Beautiful AI and Tome App are not yet refined and lead to unintended results.
Despite current limitations, there is optimism for the future of AI in presentation software, with Microsoft's CoPilot on the horizon.