A recent "news" article (that I'm too lazy to look up) reported on a speech by a reputable(?) neuro-biologist in which he discussed "what makes humans different from animals."
During the question period following his lecture, someone asked if a genetic modification of chimpanzees to increase their number of neurons would be possible and might make them "more human."
His replay was to the effect that "it certainly is something that's worth thinking about, but it's not currently something we'd try to do."
When a subsequent question asked if "it would be possible to increase the number of human neurons, and would it make humans better," his reply was
"It would certainly change reality TV."
There doesn't seem to me to be all that much difference betweeen Yahoo news and most "reality TV" so maybe it's a way to go(?).