--- title: Tree of Thought Prompting: Teaching LLMs to Think Slowly description: The post discusses the concept of 'Tree-of-Thought' (ToT) prompting as a method to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) like... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tree-of-thought-prompting-teaching-llms-to-think-slowly-je9rs1bsa twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Tree of Thought Prompting: Teaching LLMs to Think Slowly | daily.dev og:description: The post discusses the concept of 'Tree-of-Thought' (ToT) prompting as a method to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) like... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tree-of-thought-prompting-teaching-llms-to-think-slowly-je9rs1bsa og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/je9rs1bSA.png og:image:alt: Tree of Thought Prompting: Teaching LLMs to Think Slowly og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Tree of Thought Prompting: Teaching LLMs to Think Slowly **[Towards Data Science](https://daily.dev/sources/tds)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The post discusses the concept of 'Tree-of-Thought' (ToT) prompting as a method to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4. By employing ToT, these models can explore multiple reasoning paths akin to a decision tree, allowing for improved decision-making. The technique is assessed through a case study where a ToT-powered LLM agent plays Minesweeper, demonstrating its ability to simulate logical, step-by-step thoughts and yielding high accuracy rates. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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