Max Hodak

8 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 9, 2026 by Max Hodak · across every show →

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Mar 9, 2026 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Hodak: Science trial achieved the first coherent form vision restoration
“As far as I know, our clinical trial was the first time ever that form vision had been, like, had created, like, a coherent image in the mind's eye of a person.”
Max Hodak Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 16:21 The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Opinion
Hodak: BCI is primarily a longevity and healthcare story, not AI merger
“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…”
Max Hodak Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 26:22 The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hodak: The ultimate end of brain-computer interfaces is conscious machines
“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.”
Max Hodak Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 26:39 The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Insight
Hodak: The human brain is almost literally an information-processing computer
“Well, I mean, the brain is a computer, and it's gonna, saying that it's gonna get me yelled at by some corner of the field, but I think, like, I think that you can take that, like, almost literally. It's a very different architecture than, like, a, like a von …”
Max Hodak Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 18:01 The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Hodak: Prima implant produces normal black-and-white vision in blind patients
“The qualia of Prima is, is normal sight. It's black and white. It's only a, it's a small field of view, but it's vision.”
Max Hodak Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 10:54 The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
Mar 9, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hodak: Ultra-high-bandwidth bio-hybrid neural interfaces will eventually be built
“The deeper question is like, what is the qualia of like a brain to brain of like an ultra high bandwidth, like a bio hybrid neural interface. And that is just like, I don't like impossible to imagine. I, those devices will get built and we're going to find out…”
Max Hodak Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 11:02 The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
Mar 9, 2026
Assertion Supported
Hodak: The Prima electrical stimulation retinal implant cannot treat glaucoma
“One of the diseases that Prima or electrical similar doesn't treat is glaucoma, which is loss of the optic nerve itself.”
Max Hodak Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 29:06 The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Insight
Hodak: Neuroscience is learning more from AI research than vice versa
“But I think one of the interesting things that's come out of progress in artificial intelligence is we're seeing this big unification in neuroscience and AI. I think we're actually learning a lot from AI research, more than I think we thought we would learn fr…”
Max Hodak Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 19:10 The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
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