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Prompting Science Report 2: The Decreasing Value of Chain of Thought in Prompting

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Main Authors:	Meincke, Lennart, Mollick, Ethan, Mollick, Lilach, Shapiro, Dan
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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