What is Chain-of-Thought prompting, and can it be used to generate text?

This article was co-authored with Annelie Tinworth, Lead UX Content Designer at Volvo Cars, localisation legend, and word nerd extraordinaire.

You know when you were at school studying Maths, and your teacher would always sternly remind you to “show your working out”? The more you write out all those steps, the easier it becomes to apply them to more complex problems. And that, essentially, is what Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting is about.