"Ambiguous use of prefix" compiler error with Swift 3 - swift3

I just migrated my project from Swift 2.2 to Swift 3.0 with Xcode 8 beta.
I have something similar to the following code (you can paste this into a playground):
import Foundation
let datesWithCount: [(Date, Int)] = [(Date(), 1), (Date(), 2), (Date(), 3)]
let dates: [Date] = datesWithCount.sorted {
$0.0 < $1.0
}.prefix(1).map {
return $0.0
}
In Swift 2.2 this compiled fine. However, with Swift 3.0 I get the error
Ambiguous use of 'prefix'
The only way to get this to compile in Swift 3.0 is to split out the map into a separate line:
let sortedDatesWithCount = datesWithCount.sorted {
$0.0 < $1.0
}.prefix(1)
let mappedDates = sortedDatesWithCount.map {
return $0.0
}
BTW, in the actual code I'm returning NSNotification objects from the map not Dates but the error is the same. I just used Date here for making the example simple.
Is there any way to get this to compile as a one liner?
UPDATE: Created a JIRA for the Swift project.

It works if you make the ArraySlice into an Array before passing it to map:
let dates: [Date] = Array(datesWithCount.sorted {
$0.0 < $1.0
}.prefix(1)).map { return $0.0 }
This looks like a type inference bug in the compiler.

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