Someone found their lost Bose bud in a field of gravel using ChatGPT, and
it's genius

Date:
Sat, 31 Oct 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Description:
It's probably not the most environmentally-friendly earbud finder, but it's better than having to buy a new pair ChatGPT has better eyes than humans

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Imagine the scene. You're in
the park with your family, you're running to catch up with them, and your earbud case falls out of your pocket, scattering your earbuds. You find one but the other has vanished and all you can see is gravel. Who ya gonna call?

For Just-a-fungi893 on Reddit , the answer is: ChatGPT. "I spent a solid 10 minutes searching, knowing there's basically no way I'm going to find a tiny white earbud in a sea of white gravel, especially with the sun setting," they explained. "I use ChatGPT for A LOT of stuff, and it suddenly dawned on me to ask it for help instead of pointlessly scanning the area myself." Latest Videos From TechRadar Watch full video here:

Five minutes later, earbud and owner were reunited, with ChatGPT steering him towards the exact point in the relevant photo. It's not because ChatGPT has magic powers, but because LLMs are really good at spotting tiny things in big pictures: earbuds in gravel, needles in haystacks, indicators of tumors in X-rays. It's all pattern recognition. ChatGPT found my lost earbud from r/ChatGPT It's time to embrace our AI overlords vs no, it isn't As fun as the story is I'd never have thought of taking a photo and feeding it to a
chatbot ; it's smart thinking one of the other comments on the Reddit thread made me laugh: Mindless-Apricot-236 responded that they once lost a screw outdoors, uploaded a picture to ChatGPT and "asked the oracle to help me find it. It said it found it. Showed me the picture... It just modified the original picture and put a random screw on it lol" You may like People are using ChatGPT for much more than writing and research My 5 favorite ChatGPT plugins right now I tried ChatGPT's latest Chrome upgrade and it surprised me

Other commenters had suggestions that didn't involve AI at all, such as 4-jr1's "how about next time you just open Spotify and listen for the one
rock among hundreds that sings out loud" although that wouldn't work if the headphones weren't on and paired; I have Bose QuietComfort earbuds and they don't turn on until they're in my ears and SpehlingAirer's "When this kinda thing happens to me I turn on my phone's flashlight and bring it low to the ground pointing almost horizontally. The way the light reflects off the
common background (gravel, carpet, grass, etc) and the way it reflects off
the glossy plastic are often different enough to help spot it quickly."

And of course many of the best earbuds have some variation of Find My, enabling you to locate them from your phone. But it's nice to know that all those years we've been identifying bicycles, stairs and traffic lights in website CAPTCHAs has paid off: computer vision has become really incredible. Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our
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As to whether it's reliable, I'll just leave this, by AnalogAngeleno, here:
"I tried something similar at a used bookstore. Took a photo of the shelve
and asked it to help look for books since they were not in any kind of order. Unfortunately it started making up books that were not even there."

Still, you'll get different results depending on the type of task and the model you're using evidently, this one worked well enough, and seems like a good tip to keep in mind for your own earbud emergency. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.



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