See Moravec's paradox [1], which has formulated decades ago. The more we build these models the more it's starting to seem like the paradox is basically true: that the hard part of intelligence isn't higher reasoning but the basic perception and sensorimotor control that animals have been evolving for hundreds of millions of years before homo sapiens came on the scene.
People in the 17th century viewed themselves as fancy clockwork machines, because of course mechanical clocks were the peak of high-tech hype at the time.
(Really what we should be thinking about is information complexity, not facile analogies.)
And in theological arguments back then, god was called "the great watchmaker". Now the question "are we living in a computer simulation?" keeps popping here and there. I wonder what the analogy will be in 400 years.
In 400 years: "back in the day the meatbags thought they were special"