Florent Daudens
Content | Innovation | Management
Passionate about AI and technology trends, driven by news and enriched by human connection, I've been shaping the digital evolution of major media outlets for 15+ years.
Passionate about AI and technology trends, driven by news and enriched by human connection, I've been shaping the digital evolution of major media outlets for 15+ years.
As the current Director of Newsgathering and Deployment for national and international news at Radio-Canada, I orchestrate operations across five international bureaus, parliamentary bureaus in Quebec and Ottawa, and news journalists in Montreal.
In my former position as News Director at Le Devoir, I led a sweeping digital transformation. This involved overseeing editorial teams, initiating specialized units in video and data visualization, launching a variety of innovative products such as applications, newsletters, and election coverage, venturing into new coverage domains, and driving artificial intelligence initiatives.
Simultaneously, I have the opportunity to instruct digital journalism at the University of Montreal's Graduate Diploma in Journalism program. I remain committed to fostering growth in our profession, with contributions to the board of FPJQ and Trente magazine, as well as involvement in groups like Hacks/Hackers Montreal. My diverse experience spans roles at La Presse, Rue89, France3, and the Federation of Quebec Journalists.
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With a curiosity to explore ChatGPT's programming abilities, I crafted a program using Python, FeedParser, and OpenAI's API.
Hosted on AWS for automation, this program sends out an email at 8 a.m. daily, providing a summary of the past 24 hours' AI-related articles using text-davinci-003. You can find more details in this post.
Three objectives for this project:
For those who like to look under the hood, I've tested several solutions. The final configuration relies on a Pandas agent from LangChain, GPT-4 for the language model, Langsmith for interaction tracking, and Streamlit for deployment.
To try out the tool, click here. For more details on this project, see this post.