Tag: reasoning
4 items with this tag.
Distributed cognition
Distributed cognition is the idea that thinking happens across people, the tools they use, and the settings they work in, as well as inside individual heads. In healthcare it describes reasoning shared between clinicians, patients, records, and increasingly AI systems, and it shifts the question from what one clinician knows to how well the whole system thinks.
Context rot
Context rot, also called context drift, is the way a language model's output gets worse as its context fills with drafts, dead ends, and its own earlier mistakes. What causes it, why a larger context window does not fix it, and how to manage it in long pieces of work.
Single-hop reasoning
Answering a question in one step, by retrieving the passages most similar to it and generating a response from them. It's the default pattern in RAG systems, reliable when the answer sits in one place and weak when it has to be assembled from several.
Multi-hop reasoning
Multi-hop reasoning with knowledge graphs: how AI answers questions that take several steps, and why recorded relationships make each step checkable.