Chain-of-thought prompting encourages a model to produce intermediate reasoning steps before a final answer, which can improve some multi-step tasks.
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Chain-of-thought prompting encourages a model to produce intermediate reasoning steps before a final answer, which can improve some multi-step tasks.
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You ask the model to show its working, not only the final answer.
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- NIST AI Risk Management Framework — risk vocabulary context for AI systems
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