What is Elon's Secret Technology, Q*?

Have you heard of 'Elon's'/OAI's/Microsoft's tech : Q*? [No, not the Q-Anon Bullshit]

[For years I have heard wackos wonder, “Who is Q?” So at the start, whack that troll mole - that thing is a refuge for low iq political anesthesiests. This article is not about that. This article is about something that people know EVEN LESS ABOUT than q-anon.]

What is Q*?

It is a technology.

We don’t know what it is. It’s “hypothetical” (or may not be)

The builders/owners know that it is “in development” but also “do not know what it is”.

We do know that whatever it is is also apparently the technology which will bring the world the much vaunted #AGI, and also seems like might be AGI itself, here today.

We learn that it was a major basis of the lawsuit filed by Elon Musk on 2/29/24 and dropped by Elon Musk on 6/11/24. (Late in the day yesterday)

Today 6/12 was to be oral argument on OAI + Cos + Brockman “Motion to Strike” a Preliminary Injunction request by Musk. The filings talk a lot, and cryptically, about Q*.

You should know that in the runup to a Motion to Strike oral argument before the court (open, in public for all to see and hear), there is always a lot of conversation between the parties’ lawyers teams in the background. This is because the parties will advance new arguments, facts, and information and battle one another in front of the judge.

The two sides would have been discussing (arguing) for weeks what they were going to say in court during the hearing today.

And here we are talking about a “secret technology” — whose existence, content, and ownership is unknown but we know it is disputed.

So much secret information of OAI Musk and Microsoft would have been made public this morning, but for the case being voluntarily dismissed by Musk last night.

So much information about just what is Q* how it relates to AGI who made it and who knows about it and who has ownership or licensing claims to it…

In Musk’s original 2/29/24 Complaint, one of his key claims asked “the Court to declare that a technology called “Q*” constitutes “Artificial General Intelligence” and must therefore be excluded from OpenAI’s licensing agreement with Microsoft.” [From Defendants’ Motion to Strike, below]

Elon Musk is mighty keen on keeping it, believes that he owns it, believes that Microsoft has no claim to it (but believes that Microsoft was given a claim to it) — yet to the public neither OAI nor Elon Musk/X nor Microsoft have mentioned it.

Interesting!

Far more interesting is Musk lawyers protecting information about Q* by arguing that their statements about it were “in the hypothetical.” On this basis Defendants had moved to strike on vagueness grounds (which are good grounds).

See here [Defendant’s Motion to Strike]:

We can conclude that discussion of the content and character and development status and ownership/licensing status of Q* would have been had in that hearing.

Case dismissed.

Now that the case was dismissed by some underlying form of agreement (which we will never know) we will not now know more about Q*

…yet only later perhaps, and maybe.

(If Q* is even the real name (!) and not just a “hypothetical” placeholder name for the true name of the technology…)

But we can still make judgments:

1. Q* is not the main technology in controversy. Rather it is a sub-set (separate) form of technology related somehow.

2. Musk believes that OAI either licensed or sold Q* to Microsoft.

3. Musk disagrees with license/assignment to Microsoft (likely due to his own proprietary interest).

4. Q* is very important — a big part of this controversy.

5. Despite claims about AGI being “for the people” it looks like Q* ‘may be’/’is’ AGI and yet the public does not know it, nor know about it.

6. Neither Musk nor OAI nor Sam Altman nor Microsoft want to talk about Q*.

7. We can presume Q* is a also a very high value piece of technology.

8. Microsoft in the background (returning to foreground later? more to come from this?) again.

So, what is Q*?

And who knows?