I think he is talking about decision making abilities. But even stuff you mentioned are too hard to build for a real world military scenario. They have to deal

I think he is talking about decision making abilities. But even stuff you mentioned are too hard to build for a real world military scenario. They have to deal with countless different objects, scenarios, and situations. Too many edge cases to cover and will take ages to adjust and it will be full of human errors. They can build it for simple tasks. Find the best route to go there, bomb that specific target, come back and during your mission deal with a limited set of defense scenarios.