Dev mocks 'model IQ' scaling hype: '1000 points, then 100K, then a bajillion'
willcb · x · 2026-10-19
Developer willcb sarcastically riffs on the 'IQ scaling' narrative: models will supposedly hit 1000 IQ in a few years, then 100K, then '100 bajillion' — his point being that IQ was never a measure that keeps real meaning across orders of magnitude. A jab at the trend of framing model capability gains in IQ terms.
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