Prompting
Chain of thought
Having a model work through intermediate reasoning steps before giving its answer, which improves accuracy on complex problems.
Once a prompting trick ('think step by step'), chain of thought is now built into reasoning models, which do it automatically.
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What does Chain of thought mean?
Having a model work through intermediate reasoning steps before giving its answer, which improves accuracy on complex problems. Once a prompting trick ('think step by step'), chain of thought is now built into reasoning models, which do it automatically.