A fun way to think about this is by analyzing the 'training-time' for these tasks.
The things we think are easy, we've been trained to do through millions of years of evolution. Running with two feet through a forest is pretty easy for us. Not so much so for computers.
The things that we think are mentally taxing, we've only been doing for a few thousand years or so.
>The things that we think are mentally taxing, we've only been doing for a few thousand years or so.
It's kind of fascinatingly serendipitous in the sense that computers/AI are super quick at performing the tasks that we humans find extremely taxing (complex mathematical computation, visual simulation) while struggling with tasks that comes naturally to us humans (gripping objects, running with two feet--as you described) owing to evolution.
I wonder how much of that is because of constituent 'building block' materials that make up the basic structure of homo sapiens and computers -- carbon and silicon, respectively.
The things we think are easy, we've been trained to do through millions of years of evolution. Running with two feet through a forest is pretty easy for us. Not so much so for computers.
The things that we think are mentally taxing, we've only been doing for a few thousand years or so.