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.


Experience

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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Projects

The AI Gazette

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.

🤖🗳️ Resultbot, the Election Results Robot

Three objectives for this project:

  • Test the capabilities of large language models to interact with numerical data
  • Evaluate the agents' reasoning abilities to answer a question
  • Record user interactions to improve prompts and potentially fine-tune a model

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.


Certificates

Artificial Intelligence
  • LangChain for LLM Application Development - DeepLearning.AI
  • ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers - DeepLearning.AI
  • AI For Everyone - Coursera

Data Visualization
  • Data Visualization and Infographics with D3 - Knight Center
  • Doing Journalism with Data - European Journalism Center
  • QGIS - Knight Center