LLMs can use PowerPoint, but also LLMs can write the raw document file directly without the software. One time I asked for a letter and what came out was it doing that.
What really matters with this though is reading other people's documents, whatever format they happen to be in. PowerPoint isn't the only game in town for creating slide decks, but if you want to be sure you can read all the ones sent to you, it used to be the case you'd need a copy.
Used to be. Now the AI can read and summarise the slides for you.
("AI, expand these bullet points into a slide deck" -> "AI, condense this slide deck into bullet points", as the meme goes).
I very much can.
That applies to most software.
This doesn't solve the problem of "Who gets paid now, and for what?" at all. If anything it makes it worse.
This "productivity" gain changes nothing. Software already optimized most of it in the past 20 years, the gains now are marginal, at best incremental.
The PowerPoint object is meant to be a package of one’s insights. If those insights are of zero value (the less time you spend the less value - correlation) - that time expended is a net negative for he firm’s productivity.
My point was that AI isn't some productivity software thing. The addressable market is white collar work that can be done on a computer.
You think its implausible for AI to replace some fraction of white collar workers? To me this is directionally exactly where this is heading?
Yes, it is. Software already did it. Better software (AI) can only marginally change what's already automated.
Either people don’t want to believe or they find it difficult to understand.
The only pipe dream AI has is to replace the human in totality. Otherwise it’s at best a complement.