The Daily Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Press Release
Energy statistics, June 2024
Primary energy production rose 5.9% to 1.9 million terajoules in June. Secondary energy production also posted an increase, edging up 1.3% to 0.4 million terajoules.
Quarterly capital spending: Oil and gas industries, second quarter 2024
Capital expenditures in the oil and gas extraction industries increased by 14.8% in the second quarter to $11.9 billion.
Experimental estimates of AI occupational exposure in Canada
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI)—highlighted by the release of ChatGPT—have fuelled excitement as well as concerns about the role of human workers in the future. While previous waves of technological transformation such as automation mainly affected less educated workers performing routine and manual tasks, a broader segment of the labour force could potentially be affected in an era when highly sophisticated algorithms that can model language and other AI applications increasingly excel at performing non-routine and cognitive tasks typically performed by highly educated workers.
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