Creating Human Like Virtual AI Minds : Discussion 1

I am sending out an invite to various academics to see whether they would be interested in having an accessible, largely jargon-free and hopefully understandable discussion on creating human-like AI.

I am going to ask them to join this group and this group's forum to discuss:

I want to use simulation to mimic and "ground" human-like understanding properly within a virtual mind, that exists in a virtual world.

The human-like AI development plan I am writing up would aim to create an AI that has the capability to properly use and conceptually understand language.

I want to create a creative commons share and share alike discussion group on these issues that is well documented and fully understandable and accessible to any motivated individual.

I want to discuss the ideas in a paper I have been writing on describing how simulation technologies, virtual reality and video-gaming technology could be used to create and host multiple human like AI agents in virtual safe "Matrix like" AI world (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix) that we could visit or connect to our human world.

NOTE too :--
I would like someone volunteer as online interviewer / host

I am booking this on short notice.
If I do manage to get any academics available or will to participate then I plan to go ahead with this anyway and publish an interview discussion on my youtube channel : search MAKEAIHAPPEN on youtube

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