> The abstract human reasoning required for even high level perceptual tasks is difficult for humans to consciously dissect, but it could easily be that it's actually relatively mundane

I don't think so. Philosophers have theorized about abstract thought for thousands of years. The materialist metaphysics that is uncritically and unconsciously held by the triumphalist philistines isn't even capable IN PRINCIPLE of accounting for it.

In any case, AI is useful, and will continue to be, but the fanfare is just noise distracting from the truth of what it is.