It tries to in a way that scales easily, and is also easily gamed.
I want a staff of human testers, each with domain expertise. If the goal is to replace humans, should there not be a real human metric?
I want a physicist asking their battery of physics questions, 4 different kinds of devs asking their battery of dev problems, a couple chefs asking for cooking techniques, etc.
Now on to "Deep Research," 6 different kinds of OSINT/secondary analysts who ask new problems each time, and compare it to their days of human work.
We really need this as a species, otherwise the brain dead C-Suites of the world are going to keep buying the hype, which is often very premature. This could have real consequences, and it apparently already has.
It's insane to me that we are investing, what, almost $1T into LLMs, and have not spent the ~$1.5M/year to do what I described above.