--- title: How ‘Chain of Thought’ Makes Transformers Smarter description: Large Language Models like GPT-3 exhibit exceptional capabilities in complex reasoning tasks. The key to unlocking advanced reasoning abilities lies in the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-chain-of-thought-makes-transformers-smarter-4ww2ckcv8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How ‘Chain of Thought’ Makes Transformers Smarter | daily.dev og:description: Large Language Models like GPT-3 exhibit exceptional capabilities in complex reasoning tasks. The key to unlocking advanced reasoning abilities lies in the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-chain-of-thought-makes-transformers-smarter-4ww2ckcv8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4WW2CKCV8.png og:image:alt: How ‘Chain of Thought’ Makes Transformers Smarter og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How ‘Chain of Thought’ Makes Transformers Smarter **[Machine Learning News](https://daily.dev/sources/mlnews)** · 3 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Large Language Models like GPT-3 exhibit exceptional capabilities in complex reasoning tasks. The key to unlocking advanced reasoning abilities lies in the 'chain of thought' approach, which allows models to generate intermediate reasoning steps before arriving at the final answer. This approach improves reasoning abilities in transformers by enabling them to perform serial computations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#deep-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/deep-learning), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#transformers](https://daily.dev/tags/transformers) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-chain-of-thought-makes-transformers-smarter-4ww2ckcv8) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How ‘Chain of Thought’ Makes Transformers Smarter","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-chain-of-thought-makes-transformers-smarter-4ww2ckcv8","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-chain-of-thought-makes-transformers-smarter-4ww2ckcv8"},"datePublished":"2024-05-13T01:04:51.782Z","dateModified":"2024-05-13T01:04:50.306Z","description":"Large Language Models like GPT-3 exhibit exceptional capabilities in complex reasoning tasks. The key to unlocking advanced reasoning abilities lies in the...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/8df33e8979b4b133b803d69bcc99eab1?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/8df33e8979b4b133b803d69bcc99eab1?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Machine Learning News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Machine Learning News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--0PoEtdkd--/f_auto/v1750409401/squads/marktechpost?_a=BAMClqZW0","url":"https://daily.dev/squads/mlnews"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-chain-of-thought-makes-transformers-smarter-4ww2ckcv8","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"deep-learning,llm,transformers","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Machine Learning News","item":"https://daily.dev/squads/mlnews"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"How ‘Chain of Thought’ Makes Transformers Smarter"}]} ```