Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
Source
arxiv.org
Author
Jason Wei et al.
Date
Why it matters
The finding that asking for the working, not just the answer, changes what a model can solve — and that the effect only emerges above a certain scale. It is the ancestor of every reasoning mode, and why 'think step by step' became infrastructure rather than a trick.
