“Hey Claude Cowork, take this PDF of my school’s curriculum. Turn it into a Word doc with the same layout, and translate to Chinese. Check all the words online to make sure they are current.”
The job was done in several minutes. It took me a longer time to check the translation. Claude figured out that “CS” in the headline stood for Communication Studies, and translated it automatically.
I feel a mix of wonder and sadness.
Wonder… at what Gen AI can do today versus the last month.
Sadness… when I share these developments excitedly with people and many of them shrug it off, or ask me why I use Gen AI when it “uses so much water”, or tell me about how Gen AI hallucinates.
I don’t get into arguments with them about what’s right or wrong. I just carry on with my self learning and do my best to share what I know with the world.