Elon Musk's brain chips, chilling deepfakes and 'conscious' AI coming in 2021 dystopia

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Elon Musk plants chips into human brains – and it's not the only thing that could make the next 12 months look like a futuristic dystopia.

The year 2020 has been one of the worst in living memory thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, but next year could be even scarier.

In August, The Tesla boss unveiled a pig who had one of his chips planted in its brain.And he reckons the Neuralink devices – that he claims will boost brain "functionality" – will be inserted into human heads in 2021.He told Podcast: "There's still a lot of work to do.

So when I say, you know, we've probably got a shot at putting it in a person, you know, within a year."I think, that's exactly what I mean, I think we have a chance of putting input in one end, having them be.