Welcome to episode 081 of the AI for Technical Writers podcast from the Curt Robbins & Associates Technical Writing Agency. This podcast is targeted at IT professionals and technical writers. Subscribe today to never miss a single episode!

Today’s episode reviews a blog article by Jason Wei and Denny Zhou at Google Research entitled "Language Models Perform Reasoning via Chain of Thought."

Hosts Daphne and Fred share their spirited analysis of this informative article and unpack its definition of chain of thought prompting in AI tools. They describe how technical writers must learn to converse with AI chatbots and that such skills are critical to fully leveraging the power of the tool.

Wrote the article: "Chain of thought reasoning allows models to decompose complex problems into intermediate steps that are solved individually. Moreover, the language-based nature of chain of thought makes it applicable to any task that a person could solve via language."

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