The speed at which Gamma cranks out beautiful presentations is only matched by the beauty of the PDFs you can download.

My prompt was, "Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom." I chose a "Zeldaish" style for the slides. A basic outline of ideas was offered, which I accepted. In a little over a minute, I received an editable online presentation - kind of like Google slides or Prezi, and a PDF download option which was beautiful, but 40mb. Four hours of work in about 90 seconds.

What's great about this?

1. If you need help (or don't have time) to organize an outline or flow for a presentation, Gamma will provide a solid direction - and you can customize that. Good if you're stuck, or not sure how to piece things together.

2. The presentations are very pretty, and you can customize all of them. Make them longer, shorter, add displays - the works.

3. If you know your subject area? This will speed up your work big time. Pair this with a little extra research using the AI augmented search enging, Perplexity, and any generic copy can be fine tuned to brilliant, beautiful, and fast.

So what's bad about this?

1. As these services become better, the digital marketplace will gradually fill with generated content, that will look increasingly more legitimate. Misinformation will get PowerPoints.

2. You don't know what you don't know. As a longtime Zelda fan, I could fact check this as it generated, but many may just accept what's offered because it's fast and easy. AI may be getting smarter, but we should not be getting dumber at the same time.