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I think a good definition is causal learning with analogical mapping (generalization). This is something we expect out of rats, ravens, and dogs.

Well, AlphaZero has all the Go assumptions removed (which were not many, they put it out very quickly)

If you put a Go Board in front of a human who was raised by wolves in the jungle, would he play it? Or would you have to train him on how to play it? Would he not be generally intelligent if he didn't know how to play go with zero training?

As the saying goes, you can teach a kid from the jungle to play Go, but you can't teach a an AI that plays Go to live in the jungle.

Right, no disagreement, that all makes sense. (Also my favorite saying as of reading it.)

But if Mowgli takes the glowing orb with a funny voice into the jungle with a Go board because the glowing orb tells him to…