AI agents burn 10 billion tokens attacking 60-year-old channel capacity problem

Researcher Dimitris Papailiopoulos reports that AI agents, after consuming over 10 billion tokens, narrowed the 1960s-era deletion channel capacity problem to within one hundredth of a bit, though it remains unsolved.

2026-09-16 ~ 2026-09-16 · 4 related posts

• AI agents burned 10B+ tokens on a deletion channel problem open since the 1960s — DimitrisPapail · 2026-09-16
• AI agents push 60-year-old deletion channel capacity problem to within 1/100 of a bit — DimitrisPapail · 2026-09-16
• AI agents burned 10B tokens to crack a 1960s open problem to within 1/100 bit — DimitrisPapail · 2026-09-16

1 near-duplicate retellings: DimitrisPapail