In a recent interview with Wired, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis revealed that he has never used LSD and has no plans to. Instead, he derives insights into the nature of reality through gaming and extensive reading. He emphasizes the importance of maintaining mental acuity for his work in artificial intelligence and expresses concerns about the effects of psychedelics on the brain. While other tech leaders have explored psychedelics, Hassabis prefers to rely on his finely tuned mind as he navigates the development of artificial general intelligence.
"I didn't do it like that," Hassabis said. "I just did it through my gaming and reading a hell of a lot when I was a kid, both science fiction and science."
"I've sort of finely tuned my mind to work in this way," he said. "I need it for where I'm going."
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