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Generative Artificial Intelligence is bringing a new focus on efficiency at work.

Some organizations see it as a way to replace employees and to squeeze more productivity out of the

ones they have to be more efficient that way.

But others see Gen AI as an opportunity to free workers of mindless tasks and rote drudgery,

so people can engage with more complex problems and come up with better ideas and

valuable breakthroughs. That's how our guest today sees it. She uses brain

science to learn how to train our minds to become more efficient.

And she defines efficiency as more quality over quantity.

Mitu Storoni is a neuroscientist, a physician, and the author of the new book,

Hyper-efficient, optimize your brain to transform the way you work.

And she joins me now.

Mitu, welcome. Thank you so much for having me. Me too, welcome.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's a pleasure to be here. How do you define hyper-efficiency just based on the you assembled on an assembly line, the better your output was the concept or the definition of efficiency

rested on productivity and was measured on how much quantity you could produce per unit time.

But right now, we are going through a period of tremendous change in AI and in technology,

and the productivity of a company is no longer proportional to the quantity of output of its human workers

because the realm of quantity is being taken over by AI and technology.

Humans now influence the productivity of their organization by the quality of their output.

And so my definition of efficiency is really the definition I think we should adopt in this era,

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