Even AI can’t perfectly build Ikea furniture—yet

Building Ikea furniture is not for the faint of heart. So much so that folklore suggests assembling a dresser, a bed, or anything from the Swedish brand can create enough tension it may even destroy a relationship. But beyond the stuff’s being a pain to build, it turns out that the problem-solving and spatial reasoning involved in building Malm dressers or Billy bookshelves are remarkably good benchmarks for assessing just how intelligent AI models are. Aiden Ament and Greg Burnham,...