What does "truly outperform humans" mean? It sounds so broad, some kind of philosophical question, like "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?". What are you asking? Can a machine truly outperform a human at climbing, hammering, flying, calculating, sorting, or drawing accurate conclusions in a limited domain given a certain input? Of course, obviously. Can it truly outperform a human at falling in love, tasting an apple, or getting drunk on wine? No.

Humans have always been augmented by their tools. That is one of the fundamental characteristics of being human. At the tasks they're designed for, artificial tools vastly increase the performance of humans, and allows them to outperform what they could do without it. Humans have enhanced their cognitive abilities with all kinds of calculating and "thinking" machines, for millennia. A human with a clay tablet and a reed can far outperform other humans at remembering things. But what is a clay tablet - or a PC, or anything - without humans? Nothing, as far as humans are concerned.