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The web is designed for humans to use, so if Atlas can monitor us - how we book train tickets for example - it can learn how to better navigate these kinds of processes.

These neural circuits track critical processes including circulation, digestion, and immune activity.

"Their role includes the implementation of the important processes and procedures required to gain the necessary safety management and other certification needed to operate the vessel in UK waters," she added.

It might make up less than 1% of us but "it is involved in over 300 different processes", Ms Jackson explains.

At the same time, financial deregulation, the diffusion of artificial intelligence into business processes, and innovations in payments and digital finance could all boost profits and productivity, though how quickly this happens is still unclear.