[mac01021]

I'm not sure you and the OP mean the same thing by "General Intelligence".

It seems clear that autonomous systems which can apply their computational machinery to a diverse range of problems, and can, in a diverse range of settings, formulate instrumental goals as part of a plan to attain a final goal, do exist.

Because that's what humans are, at least some of the time.

[mannykannot]

But if human performance in these regards never exceeded what the pinnacle of today's AI performance is, we would not regard them as intelligent in a general sense, either.