AI Settles 25-Year-Old Wireless Communication Theory Problem
DimitrisPapail · x · 2026-08-09
A researcher shared how AI successfully tackled a 25-year-old open theoretical question in wireless communications. The problem, intensely studied in the 2000s, asks whether a receiver can perfectly recover N bits sent through an N×N Gaussian wireless channel when the signal-to-noise ratio is at least 2 log N. The author noted that recent advanced LLMs like GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable appear to have definitively solved this puzzle.
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