AI products are beginning to look like most of the tech products in terms of their reliability. You need to be a bit of an expert to make sure it's all working. There's really no tech product that will work 100 percent of the time. It's rare that a user can pick up a product without having to learn a bit about how it should work and how it can fail to work. AI's will have the same drawbacks so knowing about how to get the best out of the AI will be a strong skill. Similar to the way IT needs all the people to function. AI tech support will be a thing.
No, it hasn't. I still acquire knowledge, work, and get answers pretty much the same way I did 10 years ago.
What would be the essential skill for us in your opinion to make the best of AI?
The same skills that are required to take advantage of any new technology: understand what problems are there, see if the technology can solve them, if yes, build a solution, sell it.
Not sure what the image generators are good for beyond social media clout. They are over saturating the supply of certain styles of images. Handy for grabbing an image for your blog post, but a bit lacking for professional work as you can't create something to an exact specification.
The only difference is that I can make very cool artworks while being devoid of any artistic skills
You learn to teach your bot to understand you.
It's similar to how you would talk to speech recognition like a newscaster.
For a first calibration, ensure that your detector goes absolutely apeshit at the first sentence of OP's question.