In 2017, Narrative Intelligence will be your edge over Artificial Intelligence

In 2016, an Artificial Intelligence taught me how storytelling is moving from a nice-to-have to a must-have skill in the workplace. A few months ago, a TEDx talk I gave was analyzed by a deep learning system, an AI, developed at the University of Tokyo. The feedback and insights I got from the AI system were really interesting (it benchmarked and evaluated my talk against the database of all publicly-rated TED talks), but it also made me think about how tools like this AI could help make us all better public speakers and presenters. And it's not just speech feedback where AI is helping out. In an article I wrote for Fast Company, I described how startups are already selling services which use AI to create presentation slides for us, and they're getting better at it all the time.