Twitter users are comparing Elon Musk's Neuralink chip implants to a similar device featured in the hit dystopian series, 'Black Mirror'

The new technology designed by Musk bears a resemblance to a device featured in the hit science-fiction drama, "Black Mirror."

Users began comparing Musk's Neuralink brain implant chip to a device seen in a 2011 episode of the show after they began to trend "Black Mirror."
The comments came after Musk, Neuralink's CEO and co-founder, announced earlier this week that he is hiring a clinical trial director, signaling the company is one step closer to testing the chips in humans.

Pop culture media site Pop Crave shared a message that referenced comments made by Musk in a 2020 company presentation.

In the future, Musk said, you'll be able to save and replay memories. This is starting to sound like a "Black Mirror" episode. They could be downloaded into a new body or a robot body.

A scene from the episode "The Entire History of You" from "Black Mirror" shows a character using the "grain" technology.

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Over the past decade, the series became popular for commenting on and poking fun at society's relationship with technology. A brain implant device that allows people to record audiovisual memories and re-watch them at a later time was featured in "The Entire History of You." The fictional device allows users to change or destroy recorded memories.

While comparing the two devices, users noted that Musk's remarks evoke a scene from the movie "Be Right Back" where a character downloads a life-like artificial intelligence into a physical human body.

Some found humor in the resemblance, others voiced concern.

One person wrote that it was a no for them.

"The real life Black Mirror episode is the fact that we all watched it and didn't learn anything," wrote another.

January 22, 2022.

Neuralink hasn't responded to Insider's request for comment on the comparisons.
According to Neuralink, the company's brain-computer interface technology is designed to solve a number of physical limitations. Musk said the product could allow users to operate a phone with their mind.

A video of a monkey playing a video game using Neuralink's brain implants was released by the company.