It's a classic grade school math problem, and artificial intelligence AI programs such as OpenAI's recently released o1 large language model , currently in preview, will not only find the answer but also explain a little bit about how they arrived at it. The explanations are part of an increasingly popular approach in generative AI known as chain of thought . Although chain of thought can be very useful, it also has the potential to be totally baffling depending on how it&apo