From the movie The Matrix through the TV series Black Mirror's "Playtest," science fiction stories of connecting the brain to a machine might soon become reality, with the scientist-geek par excellence, Elon Musk's newest venture. Musk's new brain-interface start-up, Neuralink, has recently raised $26.96 million for research on the matter. The goal of this brain-to-machine interface is to help human intelligence to keep up with the fast-growing artificial intelligence (AI). But will it help humanity or kill it ? Is Musk's new project the beginning of humanity's decline ? Will robots take over the world?

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