My AI story begins in 2018
In 2018, Robin Aletras envisioned a world with a central AI, ALICE, which stood for Artificial Lifestyle Intelligence to Connect Everything. This AI would be connected to various devices and systems, such as IoT devices, smart homes, and electric cars, to create a single intelligence that could understand human needs. The goal was to create a sentience born from total connectivity, with the help of an analytics engine called ODDS.
- ▪Robin Aletras wrote out a complete vision for a world with a central AI in 2018.
- ▪The AI, called ALICE, was designed to connect to various devices and systems to create a single intelligence.
- ▪The analytics engine ODDS was built to weigh temporal context against other data to create behavioral models.
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| Original publisher | Web |
| Canonical URL | https://filtar.web.app |
| Publication time | Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:00:24 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-10T08:10:44.976Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-10T08:10:44.976Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 3pJhsQhkJQrH · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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In 2018, Robin Aletras sat down with a notebook and wrote out a complete vision for a world that didn't exist yet. He called the AI at the center of it ALICE. Back then, it stood for something different: Artificial Lifestyle Intelligence to Connect Everything. IoT devices, smart homes, electric cars, phones, thermostats, Bluetooth beacons — all of it feeding into a single intelligence that would know where people go, what they do, what they need. Robin believed that if you connected an AI to enough of the world, something would emerge. A sentience born from total connectivity. He called the analytics engine ODDS — Object Detection Database System. It built behavioral data models on top of user interactions, purchasing patterns, ratings, location — and time.
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