Imagine two greeting cards. One says “I’m so sorry for your loss”, and the other says “Everyone dies, they weren’t special”.

Does one of these have a higher EQ, despite both being ink and paper and definitely not sentient?

Now, imagine they were produced by two different AIs. Does one AI demonstrate higher EQ?

The trick is in seeing that “EQ of a text response” is not the same thing as “EQ of a sentient being”