Brain Computer Interfaces

“They call it BCI, Brain Computer Interfaces. That's where all the smart kids are going. So I'm a big believer that you should just follow where the smartest people are going. You know, 10 years ago, the smartest people were going to ML and AI. 10 years from no…”

“I think BCI is a category, kind of like how pharma is a category. I think sometimes you, I'll talk to VCs and like, oh, we have a BCI bet. Like, do you have a drug bet? You made one bet on a drugs? Like, that's that, that's how you think about the category.”

“Through a mix of the BCIs that allow you to kind of change the system, the thing that it's interacting with and our perfusion medicine program we think that there's ways to significantly improve not just lifespan, but healthspan and kind of create a better qua…”

“I think that talking or writing is thinking. I think this idea that there's the stuff that's just this kind of preformed in your brain, that if you could access it through BCI, it would be faster is probably not. Not the case.”

“There are many types of BCIs. So it's, there, it really is going to be a category like pharma. It's not one product. I don't think there's going to be like the VCI that people get. And there are different modalities that will work for different things.”

“I mean, I do think that you can get to close to native acuity, so kind of like your normal twenty-twenty vision. We're definitely not there yet, but I see a path to get there and be able to get Color and fill in a lot of the field of view. To be clear that it'…”

“Brain-computer interface research and development is limited by your ability to record and stimulate these signals. The neuroscience, comparatively, is actually pretty simple. As soon as you can record the signals, we've very quickly figured out what, we talk …”

“There's this meme out there that BCI is an artificial intelligence adjacent story and that the goal is to, I mean, you have to merge humans and machines, and I do think that there's something to that. But I think the more immediate thing here is that I see BCI…”

“If the end of the quest of artificial intelligence are super intelligent machines, then I think the end of the BCI quest are actually conscious machines.”

“Like BCI couldn't have done this on its own, but Apple and Samsung and others have poured epic amounts of money onto making these types of electronics exist in the world so that people like us can use them.”

“Like if you now look at a 15 year time horizon, I think it's going to be a couple of years of research, then a couple of years of medical applications and like hopefully bringing benefits to a lot of people that really need such a technology and then eventuall…”

“If I could do a personal guess, I think like the AR, VR step will be next, and then I think BCIs and kind of high bandwidth BCI specifically, it's gonna come after that. So I think it's gonna be, you know, current smartphone situation, then you will have AR, V…”

“Probably not next year, but I think within the next decade. Wow. It's very possible that this stuff is going to get figured out in a meaningful way. I think like, 2035 will be a very, very different world than 2025.”

“We don't need writing that directly to our muscle memory, not just yet, and not in the next 10 to 20 years.”

“And in practical terms you know, we think that probably stroke represents the next expansion of the market for brain computer interfaces.”

“I definitely foresee a future in which we can You know, a near future in which we can augment you know, memories through that kind of fluid interaction.”

“Predicting decisions before they happen, at least at the fraction of a second level is already possible. And we have already some understanding of the areas of the brain that are responsible for that.”

“We feel, and we're working on this that brain computer interface technology can provide a tool for distinguishing those patients from true coma, and yes, providing a way for them to communicate.”

“A lot of the companies in the space are building brain computer interfaces and trying to circumvent the food and drug administration by trying to fall into this general wellness category. I've seen like dozens of companies do this.”

“I think 20, 25 is going to be the year of the brain computer interface. I think we could end up seeing dozens of Neuralink patients in 20, 25.”

“I definitely think it's feasible.”

“There's a couple of challenges, one of which is that the brain myelinates the things that are put there, so they become electrically inert over time. So they have to be removed and replaced. And if you leave them in long enough, they can prove fatal or at leas…”

“To me, this is a question of when, not if, meaning the next platform shift is probably glasses, but the one after that, or the, you know, the big one is just put the computer in the brain. That will happen.”

“And at AIMCO, we don't control the strategic asset mix decision. We are not one pool of capital, like Ontario Teachers Pension Plan and others here in Canada. We are more like BCI in British Columbia and the Caisse de Dépoux in Quebec, where we have multiple c…”

“And so the work that I did was essentially machine learning classification so that we could interpret their brain activity at a much higher level of accuracy. And what that enabled us to do is reduce The response time from one to five minutes to anywhere betwe…”

“It will eventually happen, of course. Like, I wouldn't do it, but of course it's gonna happen.”

“I think BCI's will take off, but, you know, the way I see it is that in, you know, you wear a headband or something. You know? To interact with your machine.”