My understanding was that chain-of-thought is used precisely BECAUSE it doesn't reproduce the same logic that simply asking the question directly does. In "fabr

My understanding was that chain-of-thought is used precisely BECAUSE it doesn't reproduce the same logic that simply asking the question directly does. In "fabricating" an explanation for what it might have done if asked the question directly, it has actually produced correct reasoning. Therefore you can ask the chain-of-thought question to get a better result than asking the question directly. I'd love to see the multiplication accuracy chart from https://www.mindprison.cc/p/why-llms-dont-ask-for-calculators https://www.mindprison.cc/p/why-llms-dont-ask-for-calculator... with the output from a chain-of-thought prompt.