chain of thought

Another type of in-context learning happens via “chain of thought” prompting, which means asking the network to spell out each step of its reasoning—a tactic that makes it do better at logic or arithmetic problems requiring multiple steps.

He looked up sharply, abruptly as if some chain of thought had been rudely broken: then he left me.

It was technology that broke this chain of thought.

“We’ve got to get away from that chain of thought,” Fauci said on ABC.

“They said if you let him talk, he’ll lose his chain of thought because he’s gonzo,” Trump said during a 50-minute interview with the network in the lead-up to Thursday’s presidential debate.