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An evening with Copilot for Powerpoint: please bring Clippie back!

A hands-on exploration of Microsoft Copilot for PowerPoint, testing its capabilities for presentation creation and editing, with humorous comparisons to the legacy Clippy assistant. Copilot has significant limitations in understanding context and user intent, particularly with non-English content and specific editing requests. The AI assistant struggles with co-reference resolution, making it difficult to understand which slide or element I am referring to. Copilot cannot directly access or interact with PowerPoint Online, limiting its functionality for cloud-based workflows. The fallback responses are repetitive and lack conversational variety, making the user experience frustrating. Despite being positioned as an AI assistant, Copilot performs worse than the legacy Clippy assistant from the 1990s in practical usability. Dutch language support is officially unavailable, creating barriers for non-English users even when prompting in English. My experience raises questions about the readiness of Copilot for PowerPoint as a production-ready tool for content creators.