This phenomenon has a name: Moravec's Paradox [1]. If a chimp or a four year old can do it, a computer probably has a hard time with it. An interesting counter

This phenomenon has a name: Moravec's Paradox [1]. If a chimp or a four year old can do it, a computer probably has a hard time with it. An interesting counter-example to the trend is theorem proving. A symbolic task that wasn't present in the ancestral environment, but humans crush computers at it. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox