In January 2022, researchers at Google Brain published a paper that changed how people interact with AI. Jason Wei and colleagues demonstrated that adding intermediate reasoning steps to prompts (a method they called “chain-of-thought prompting”) improved large language model performance on arithmetic, commonsense, and symbolic reasoning tasks (Wei et al., 2022, arXiv:2201.11903). The technique was […]
Introduction You’ve probably tried it. You type a carefully worded request into ChatGPT, Claude, or your company’s new AI assistant. The model responds brilliantly. You think you’ve cracked the code. Then you try the exact same prompt the next day. Different answer. Or you hand your perfectly tuned prompt to a colleague. It fails. Or […]
