Yes, it's not yet automated. Today. The AI's promise is that in the near feature, where AI can design better AI and better 'robots', human work in any form will become mutt.

Billionaires exist because they harvest money, via selling products and services from the poor masses. The masses however must have some income otherwise there is nothing to harvest. If there is no paying jobs at the end, the society as we know it will end one way or another.

When everything is automated and nobody has any income, who buys anything from automated factories?

Only economy cars? Not so. Even Vietnam's VinFast has luxury models: check the VF9 a full size EV SUV with luxury finish for MSRP $63k as sold in the USA. So does China.

Very on time see: TED rado hour "Future You"
https://www.npr.org/programs/t...

The point is that we, humans suck at working on thing that fruit in the far-future and the above explains why.

It's easy to say this sitting in comfort of your home and country. Would you join Polish army to support your statement?

"haphazard in their design"? There is no 'design', more like 'haphazard in their nature" or rather "haphazard as a result of the process of evolution" but yeah understanding how it work requires a lot of such experiments.
However, the AI better be less messy. I hope we can do better here with the 'design'. But in any case it's going to be an Alien Intelligence rather than Artificial (human) Intelligence.

Though one thing I really miss from Perl (in Python) is regex being part of the language rather than a library. This was very useful in Perl.

Ok, "killed" is too strong, fine, so rather "displaced"?

But "rightfully" was a tribute the Perl's syntax being heavily punctuation based and with rampant plurality - the same thing can be expressed multiple ways. This did not help withe ease of use and maintainability, hence "rightfully". (At may old age I am starting to favor "verbosity" over "expressiveness". Perl always looked like "assembly" of scripting languages.)

TL;DW; but did it explain why particularly Python become so popular? It killed Perl (rightfully) and almost killed Javascript (Node remains) but did not become a front-end scripting.

me thinking the same, up vote parent!

I am glad the *president* is already on it! /s

How about running the answer through another model for sanity checks?

And... corn grows fine around windmill towers.

Without reading a paper, I'd assume both teacher and student are the same models just tuned with prompts?
Still, if the information transferred between teacher and student somehow, without direct references to T conveyed T, it's interesting.