Ethan Mollick: AI has quietly made PowerPoint presentations much better
emollick · x · 2026-10-02
Ethan Mollick argues that sitting through PowerPoints has improved since AI got good. People who let AI do the thinking were the same ones using default templates before; those who care now produce interesting layouts, visual jokes, and better diagrams.
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