Learn to use AI

Reasoning

Reasoning is a unit of 5 lessons in Rabbithole's Learn to use AI course, at level 2. The same lessons are also in Become an AI engineer as “Reasoning, plainly”.

Lessons

1. Chain-of-thought: making a model show its reasoningLevel 2
2. Reasoning models: AI that thinks before it answersLevel 2
3. In-context learning: teaching an AI inside your messageLevel 2
4. Self-consistency: ask several times, keep the most common answerLevel 2
5. Tree of Thoughts: letting an AI try several pathsLevel 2

Sources

These lessons draw on 16 sources. The most used:

• openai/openai-cookbook
• Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
• GroqDocs
• Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
• Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
• OpenAI o1 System Card
• Reasoning models don't always say what they think

All units in Learn to use AI