I'm just hoping we're almost past this phase of needing to assess LLM capabilities against an arbitrary one dimensional yard stick labeled 'Not Human' on end and "Beyond Human' on the other.

It's irrelevant and pointless. Irrelevant not just in the sense that when Deep Blue finally beat Kasparov, it didn't change anything but in the sense some animals and machines have always been 'better' on some dimensions than humans. And it's pointless because there's never been just one yardstick and even if there was it's not one dimensional or even linear. Everyone has their own yardstick and the end points on each change over time.

Don't assume I'm handing "the win" to the AI supremacists either. LLMs can be very useful tools and will continue to dramatically improve but they'll never surpass humans on ALL the dimensions that some humans think are crucial. The supremacists are doomed to eternal frustration because there won't ever be a definitive list of quantifiable metrics, a metaphorical line in the sand, that an AI just has to jump over to finally be universally accepted as superior to humans in all ways that matter. That will never happen because what 'matters' is subjective.