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The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:35 Garry Tan Today we've got a real treat, Max Hodak, the co-founder of Neuralink, and also founder of Science, one of the most exciting BCI, brain-computer interface companies, that we've ever seen.
- ▶ 0:53 Garry Tan So Science recently announced more than 40 people have received one of your first BCI treatments, which gives people their sight back. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:31 Max Hodak But beyond that, I'd say that our worldview, or my worldview, kind of the motivating idea behind the company, is you can contrast this, this, like, there's like a drug discovery approach to medicine versus a neural engineering approach to…
- ▶ 29:19 Max Hodak There are three elements to our pipeline at, at science.
- ▶ 33:17 Garry Tan Like, I'm very curious from those days, like, what was the V-one, and then, you know, there's a hypothesis, and then, you know, the outcome, and then here, like, the outcome is very, very awesome with science so far, not done, obviously.
- ▶ 36:53 Garry Tan It sounds like it's very good news for you in that, like, there is actually some kind of latent space mapping, and then the job of science in terms of being sort of like the API to the brain.