Searle’s Chinese Room Argument has been used to criticize the ability of the Turing test to test actual intelligence. He proposes that someone be locked alone in a room with a rulebook for Chinese symbols, which represents the computer program. The person then receives batches of Chinese symbols. They subsequently follow the rule book and hand back Chinese outputs. The person in the room gets so good at following the rulebook and give back accurate answers that they are indistinguishable from a native speaker and passes the Turing test.

However, Searle states that no matter how good this program is, the person in the room still does not know any Chinese. Therefore, computers are not actually intelligent for this reason, which makes the Turing Test inadequate.