How Models Learn

Chain of thought

Asking a model to write out intermediate steps before its final answer.

For multi-step problems, getting a model to work through the steps before answering, called chain of thought, can help.
From Prompting and checking answers, step “Ask for the working, then check it”

See it in action

Try chain of thought hands-on in the lesson Prompting and checking answers, part of the How AI assistants work course.

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