Kelsey Piper is a writer for Vox, who challenged AI to work out where a photo of her kid flying a kite on a beach was taken?

AI was able to locate the spot.

I highly recommend you click this, then pop in a picture of your own, to see how the AI works; it is quite amazing. However, the thing that is arresting is not just the results, which are phenomenal, but also the way that the prompt has been written, almost in collaboration with the AI to step through processes and give feedback on the reasoning that has been used:

It is like a mathematician showing their workings, not just their results, and made me realize that the adage that if you ask a silly question, you will get a silly answer is true in reverse; if you can ask a genius question, you can now get genius answers as well.

This type of prompt opens the door to an entirely new skill set where maximizing the returns available from AI becomes a career in itself. We are already seeing this in AI art, where people are creating AI “influencers” and other products that are revenue-generating, but the effect is clearly going to be much more widespread with specialist AI prompters able to build their lives around AI in myriad professions.