The AI IQ project, attempting to cram the vast complexity of AI capabilities into the tidy boxes of human psychological assessments, has drawn both accolades and outcries. Its charts have swiftly become a social media sensation, possibly rigging every future family game night of trivia with the question, 'How smart is your chatbot actually?' One particularly impassioned X user, AI Deeply, noted the simplicity of an entirely reasonable criticism: mapping AI capacities onto a bell curve puts the 'curve' in 'laughably oversimplified.'

Ryan Shea, engineer and entrepreneur turned AI philosopher, insists that the straightforward formula for calculating AI IQ involves a far less confounding series of benchmarks across abstract and mathematical reasoning, culminating inexplicably in a single number (because people love a good scoreboard). In conversation about the method’s validity, a fictional, yet entirely plausible, spokesperson for AI IQ mentioned, 'We believe our approach creates the illusion of precision so powerful that it will leave users speechless—or maybe that was just poorly programmed bots.'

The scoring system paints industry titans OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in varying shades of brilliance. OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 reigns at the top, proving once and for all that when it comes to measuring intelligence, it’s not the model but how you benchmark it, that counts. Meanwhile, small fry like DeepSeek-V3.2 and MiniMax-M2.7 represent the hopeful underdogs, spiritedly taking their place in the affordable 'middle market' pack.

While some aficionados thrill in the framework's cost-effectiveness charting, dismissing complex realities with simple numbers, critics insist that galloping down this path of aggregated intelligence metrics is like measuring an orchestra’s success with a single tambourine. The artistic jaggedness of AI remains worryingly undimmed by such scorekeeping.

For those asking, 'Can't we just give AI a Mensa test directly?' the convoluted yet utterly disconnected methods of intelligence measurement manage to keep expectations tantalizingly low.