Newsroom Robots
Chris Dinn: How a Toronto News Startup Developed an AI Chatbot to Analyze & Report on Municipal Budgets
Sep 14, 2023
Chris Dinn, founder of Torontoverse, talks about developing an AI chatbot to analyze and report on municipal budgets. The podcast covers topics like the effects of the Online News Act in Canada, AI's impact on the news industry, innovative approaches to local news delivery, innovative monetization strategies for news products, using AI to analyze municipal budgets, understanding GitHub and Slack for code development and content creation, the role of AI in journalism, the future of their work in Toronto, and exploring AI chatbots and the value of high-quality content.
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- Toronto Worse uses AI tools, including a GPT-powered bot, to analyze and report on spending at Toronto City Hall.
- Toronto Worse leverages AI to improve content creation workflows, such as generating play-by-play coverage for sports events.
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Toronto Worse: Innovating Local News Delivery
Toronto Worse is a digital news startup in Toronto, Canada, which offers an interactive local news experience centered around a map. They believe in using rich open data to tell the stories of cities. The publication provides visual and geographically anchored stories, from simple pop-ups to data visualizations. Their aim is to make local news more engaging and accessible through innovative approaches.
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