One hundredth of a bit: 10B tokens of AI agents vs a 1960s info-theory problem
DimitrisPapail · x · 2026-09-16
Dimitris Papail's article "One hundredth of a bit" recounts asking AI agents to find the capacity of the deletion channel, open since the 1960s. They didn't resolve it, but after >10 billion tokens combining old and new approaches the writeup documents the process. Demetri Spanos notes it's a rare look at a single researcher probing an open problem with only a few thousand dollars.
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