= What is "TinyBrain"? =

TinyBrain is a project to create real "Artificial Intelligence", that is, computers that understand you and think and express themselves.

= What is different to other AI projects? =

Both academic and commercial research have a typical shortcoming: They involve too few people - i.e., just the "professionals". We involve everyone.

If you are a computer novice: Great! We want you. Tell us what you want your machine to do. We'll make it do it. Whatever it is!

If you're an expert, then you can gain instant attention, recognition and satisfaction by contributing to TinyBrain. Programming for TinyBrain is an open, playful process - it's much more like playing chess than like tedious software-crafting.

Well, software-crafting CAN be fun - and it is that spirit that we embrace here. Just the tedious plumbing and bug-searching will be eliminated. (Yes, it's an old promise made by many people - but this time we do it!)

= What role does Lua play in TinyBrain? =

Lua is nice and simple and easy to read. And it's the only language that can be "sandboxed" properly. I'll explain the details to you somewhere else if you're interested.

To everyone else: Let's just say that Lua is a SAFE language. You can receive Lua code from anyone, run it and not worry about being "hacked" or anything like that. Lua code, the way we use it, is actually SAFE.

That's what we do: We build a universe of SAFE code. Do you remember Java applets? Applets were a huge leap forward in terms of safe distribution of code. But the concept did not nearly go far enough. TinyBrain is the next step up from there in terms of flexibility and freedom.

= I'm a user. How can I contribute? =

Give us "use cases". Which means, just tell us what you want your computer to do for you. Anything is OK. Just put it in there. We'll make a form for that.

= I'm a programmer/computer expert/learning to program. How can I contribute? =

Dive into the Lua universe that we're building. It'll be fun. Throw in your own code fragments at any time. We are building a system that will find your code, use it, evaluate it, and - if it's good enough - integrate it into our system automatically.

We don't have that process yet, but it's coming, soon.

= Who makes TinyBrain? =

Anyone who contributes. Plus Stefan Reich, who is a computer scientist, a former Google engineer and very unhappy with the state of his home town (Hamburg, Germany).

http://tinybrain.de
stefan.reich.maker.of.eye@gmail.com