Wharton School professor Ethan Mollick is known for his analyses, tweets and blog posts on generative artificial intelligence. Anyone who is not yet following him is strongly advised to do so.

In one of his latest tweets, he shows how he uses Microsoft CoPilot, which is based on ChatGPT, to create a PowerPoint slide set from a Word document. After selecting the document, the AI takes about 47 seconds and then spits out almost a dozen slides complete with lecture notes. And the films are surprisingly good, even if some people might want to do a little more work.

Here is the almost one-minute video showing the creation in real time:

But the kicker is this: The five-page Word document that had served as the source for the PowerPoint creation had also been created by ChatGPT. And the prompt for this was very short and simple. It read:

Write a Harvard Business School case about Tesla

Here is the result of this prompt:

Mollick notes that he is noticing this more and more frequently,

…that the one thing that most makes managers panic about AI is showing them, not the advanced features of GPT-4, but rather the fact that Copilot for Office can create an OK PowerPoint with speaker notes from a document in 47 seconds.

You notice how many tasks in Unternehmei can now be replaced by AI. Reports and presentations will increasingly be created using ChatGPT & Co. For us, the question arises as to how many of these jobs with such tasks were not actually bullshit jobs, a term coined by the blessed economics professor Daved Graeber in his book of the same name.

AI thus has an unexpected effect: it mercilessly shows us which jobs really didn’t make sense and which people wasted their lives doing. And that’s actually a positive result, don’t you think?