Tencent and Alibaba’s AI models understand Chinese better than humans, new rankings show

Rivalling models from the two Chinese tech giants have achieved record-high scores on the Chinese Language Understanding Evaluation benchmark. While machines can do better than humans in some language tasks, researchers say AI still has a long way to go before it can truly understand languages. — SCMP

Artificial intelligence (AI) models from Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group Holding understand the Chinese language better than humans, according to a benchmark test measuring natural language processing (NLP).

The two rival models have achieved record-high scores on the Chinese Language Understanding Evaluation (CLUE) benchmark, which is a set of tasks designed to evaluate how well a machine can understand and respond to Chinese text similar to how humans do.