This seems that a more complex approach, not simpler. To try to emulate a form of intelligence we don't understand and even worse, monitor its progress through

This seems that a more complex approach, not simpler. To try to emulate a form of intelligence we don't understand and even worse, monitor its progress through some proxy interactions that don't tell us much. Like if you're going to create a creature from scratch why create something that can't communicate with you? Unless you mean we should just tackle simpler forms of intelligence in general, which is what the rest of the AI field outside of conversational AI are doing.