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Chain of Thought
A prompting technique that encourages language models to show their reasoning step by step before arriving at a final answer. Chain-of-thought prompting significantly improves performance on mathematical, logical, and multi-step reasoning tasks.
In practice
Instead of directly answering '17 x 24 = ?', chain of thought prompts the model to compute 17x20=340, 17x4=68, 340+68=408.