arXiv:2606.31154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Creating and editing slides is a rich, multimodal activity that is ubiquitous in professional and educational settings, making it an ideal testbed for real-world computer-use agents. Microsoft PowerPoint is among the most widely adopted and feature-rich environments for presentation creation. We introduce PPT-Eval, a benchmark of 120 PowerPoint tasks across 12 files that cover both content creation and presentation editing scenarios, organized by difficulty. A central challenge in this domain is evaluation: tasks are complex, multimodal, and ofte
The proliferation of advanced AI models has made agentic systems a primary focus, necessitating robust benchmarks for real-world applicability beyond theoretical tasks.
The introduction of a challenging, multimodal benchmark for computer-use agents in an ubiquitous application like PowerPoint signifies a critical step towards practical AI agent deployment in white-collar work and productivity.
The ability to reliably evaluate AI agents on complex, real-world tasks like presentation creation and editing changes the landscape for autonomous workflow automation, moving from bespoke solutions to more generalizable agentic capabilities.
- · AI agent developers
- · Productivity software companies embracing AI
- · Businesses seeking workflow automation
- · Educational institutions adopting AI tools
- · Routine manual task workers
- · Legacy automation software vendors
- · Companies slow to adopt AI agents
AI agents will become more effective at automating complex administrative and creative tasks within office suites.
This will accelerate the integration of AI agents into broader business processes, leading to significant efficiency gains across various industries.
The enhanced capabilities of AI agents may reshape the demand for certain white-collar skills, requiring reskilling or shifting human labor towards higher-order strategic and creative functions.
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