This observation, known as Moravec’s Paradox, was identified in the 1980s by artificial intelligence and robotics researcher Hans Moravec, who concluded, ‘It is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or [in] playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility.
high-level reasoning actually requires very little computation, but low-level sensorimotor skills require enormous computational resources.