# Bad Influence story: Stanford and Google DeepMind present TURTLE, which evolves harder tool-use benchmark tasks

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-08 18:36. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/5f2ac08d-7c2d-46f4-ada9-565a9ed6f34f

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Latest update (11-08 18:36): Stanford and Google DeepMind propose TURTLE to evolve harder tool-use benchmark tasks

Overview: Stanford and Google DeepMind researchers present TURTLE, a method that uses AlphaEvolve to mutate existing tool-use tasks toward about 50% solver success. In AppWorld tests with Gemma 4 31B-it, 69% of original tasks were always solved, according to the researchers as reported by Rohan Paul on X. An LLM judge rated 52.5% of the evolved tasks as hard, compared with 19.8% of the originals.

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1. 11-08 18:36 · Rohan Paul · [Stanford and Google DeepMind propose TURTLE to evolve harder tool-use benchmark tasks](https://badinfluence.news/items/o7chjg7vl69crad104m0va58r)
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