If you haven’t heard the buzz yet, you will soon enough. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gone mainstream thanks to ChatGPT and everybody is going slightly crazy in the process, (just for different reasons). Much more on this later.

For now, AI Art has made its way into Microsoft Forms.

If you are not familiar with AI Art, it is the ability of machines to make pictures based on text you give it. Popular tools in the market include Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Firefly and Microsoft Designer. And yes, graphics designers are going to need to adapt and fast!

The tools all work the same way, you give them some text, they spit out an image. (This is called prompting as an FYI).

In Forms, as you start typing your form name, it interprets the words in real-time and generates an appropriately themed image for it. This is a huge timesaver.

Go try it out in Forms. There are zero special skills needed. And you can still upload your own images if you need to.

Being in the SharePoint game means you spend a large portion of your time looking for artwork for your intranets. AI art up that process exponentially. We have been using AI tools for that for months now, there is no graphics designer on earth that can generate the volume of images we generally need to launch an intranet as fast as what AI can. It has really helped us be more productive.