Mm..You seem to be consider this to be some mystical entity and I think that kind of delusional idea might be a good indication that you are having the ELIZA effect...

>We don't understand AI. We can only observe it.

Lol what? Height of delusion!

> Beat an average human on a good 90% of all tasks that were once thought to "require intelligence".

This is done by mapping those tasks to some representation that an non-intelligent automation can process. That is essentially what part of unsupervised learning does.