26 December 2024

What is a Thought Chain?

Chain of Thought Prompting (AI):

  • Pattern to improve reasoning and problem-solving in LLMs
  • Rather than directly asking for an answer the prompting provides a way to think through the problem step-by-step as an outlined process
  • Helps model breakdown complex tasks into smaller steps towards a more accurate result

Stream of Consciousness (Psychology):

  • Psychological phenomenon where thoughts and ideas flow freely and unfiltered with no care for grammatical or logical structure
  • The capture of raw unedited flow of consciousness as it happens

A Series of Connected Thoughts (General):

  • Series of connected thoughts or ideas that follow a certain reasoning or association
  • Something that may start as a memory, then an emotion, then a reflection of past experience