I think I would prefer to attempt to define it, than to simply assert that we don't have it (or some aspect of it).
It's demonstrably true that our species' intellectual capabilities extend to solving problems far beyond those faced by our evolutionarily-equivalent ancestors who out-competed the other hominids. They only needed to be somewhat better at tool making, communicating and forming co-operative groups, to win that scenario, but it turns out that we can also derive a lot of abstract mathematics, predict the existence of cosmological phenomena before we find them, build machines that can leave the planet, etc, etc.
We may not fully qualify as general intelligence if we define that to mean "can solve any solvable problem", and for sure we have specialisations, but to simply throw up an assertion that we are not general at all, seems odd?
It's demonstrably true that our species' intellectual capabilities extend to solving problems far beyond those faced by our evolutionarily-equivalent ancestors who out-competed the other hominids. They only needed to be somewhat better at tool making, communicating and forming co-operative groups, to win that scenario, but it turns out that we can also derive a lot of abstract mathematics, predict the existence of cosmological phenomena before we find them, build machines that can leave the planet, etc, etc.
We may not fully qualify as general intelligence if we define that to mean "can solve any solvable problem", and for sure we have specialisations, but to simply throw up an assertion that we are not general at all, seems odd?