Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: When Intuition Trumps Systematic Thinking
Chain-of-Thought reasoning improves performance on complex tasks but can reduce it when humans rely on intuition over analysis, leading to "overthinking" and suboptimal choices in some cases.
This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Chain-of-Thought overthinking? When intuition trumps systematic reasoning, step-by-step AI struggles. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow me on Twitter. Overview Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning can improve performance on certain tasks, but can also reduce performance in cases where thinking makes humans worse. The paper examines how CoT affects performance on tasks where intuitive thinking outperforms deliberative reasoning. Findings suggest CoT can lead to suboptimal choices by...