# Turing tests in Chinese rooms: What does it mean for AI to outperform humans

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2019-07-23-turing-tests-in-chinese-rooms-what-does-it-mean-for-ai-to-outperform-

The piece argues that benchmark victories do not establish human-like understanding and proposes prolonged supervised performance as a stronger test of artificial intelligence.

Blog post · Metaphor Hacker · 23 July 2019

## Where it lives

- [Read it on Metaphor Hacker (metaphorhacker.net)](https://metaphorhacker.net/2019/07/turing-tests-in-chinese-rooms-what-does-it-mean-for-ai-to-outperform-humans/)

## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 23 July 2019
- Published in: Metaphor Hacker
- Language: English

Topics: artificial-intelligence, machine-learning, cognition, evaluation.

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