I wonder if there is another way to think about tasks and work that we just don't really think about. They call what AI is supposedly automating away now "Knowledege Work" and I think before the industrial revolution they didn't even think like that.
Sure there were smart guy jobs and stuff, but they didn't think about some guy doing textile work as just doing physical labor, obviously your work requires both. The possibility of automation made the distinction noticeable in the first place.
Who knows, maybe intelligence and knowledge is just too broad a category. Egghead Andreesen talks about "taste".
We'll see