Paul Cowen

So after last night’s class I uploaded a text only PowerPoint file to both GenSpark and Manus. I never tried this before. Both failed badly. Manus took about six attempts before it was clear it was beyond its skill set. Nada. Graphics is the one area Manus is not good at. Genaro’s took 3 hours and designed the most gorgeous set of slides. It failed repeatedly and I had to click regenerate again and again and again. Finally it was done. It took 48 slides and gave me 39 slides. But wait- it gets better It turns out that GenSpark created mini slides fit for Barbie’s or something. The sides filled about 1/4 of a PowerPoint slide. When I asked it to create the slides to fit a PowerPoint it told me oh, I should have told you I couldn’t do that. Final score on this task: F for both

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Paul Cowen

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@Harlan Kilstein pls let me know how to claim when you get a chance. Thanks. Another tool you may enjoy is napkin.ai .. last I used it was free (beta)

Paul Cowen

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@Jim Van Wyck are you using the paid version though ? If not it will summarise what you wrote and that may not be what you want but if paid it will retain the text if you select it and can do more slides. In what ways didn’t it meet what you need otherwise?

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