[cubefox]

I would argue that also small children and even most animals count as "general" intelligences. Animals are much less intelligent than grown humans, but that doesn't mean they are less general. Just like, say, AlphaGo 2 is more intelligent but not more general than AlphaGo 1. Or Qwen 32B vs Qwen 7B. Model or brain size alone doesn't determine generality. Generality is more a question of architecture.

[colordrops]

Is there a formal or at least clear consensus definition of "general" intelligence? I assume it involves some level of autonomy and ability to manage novel situations.

[cubefox]

There is no consensus on this.

> I assume it involves some level of autonomy and ability to manage novel situations.

Yeah. Also operating in real-time (robotics) and being able to process sensory data only, instead of relying on preprocessed data like text tokens.