From the course: AI Agents Made Simple: Your Zero-to-Hero Guide to Prompting for Work Automation

Step-by-step thinking: Guided reasoning

From the course: AI Agents Made Simple: Your Zero-to-Hero Guide to Prompting for Work Automation

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Step-by-step thinking: Guided reasoning

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- Fast AI answers are great, but without clear reasoning, they can miss nuance and depth. Guiding your AI to think out loud and step by step makes it transparent and boost the quality of its responses. In this video, you'll learn a technique to guide our AI agent to use guided reasoning. Guided reasoning is when we simply ask the AI to think step by step, so it can break down complex tasks before answering. It is also recommended to ask it to explain each step or think out loud if you want to review its logic as it goes, but at its core, guided reasoning, it's just adding that simple phrase, think step by step. Now let's use guided reasoning to settle our team's pedicure debate. Our coffee this morning, our team discussed the ideal order for a nine-step pet pedicure, from nail cutting, all the way to applying a non-toxic bitter nail coating. This helps keep the pets from licking or biting their freshly trimmed nails. Let's go to chatgpt.com. Here, we will paste our prompt. So we can see the prompt, the goal is putting some steps in order from the pedicure, and we release the steps. I ask it to think step by step and to outline the reasoning to explain it for each step position, and then give the final number sequence, and we will execute it. The good thing is that we can see the reasoning behind the scenes. Who say that AI reasoning is a black box? With this, we can clearly see it. When we guide the AI to think step by step, we get both the logic and the polished answer, giving us confidence in our new pedicure protocol, and maybe a topic for the next coffee talk.

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