Comment by krychu

Chain of thought: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903 ReAct: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03629 Reflexion: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11366 Tree of thoughts: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10601

Good video on "Tree of thoughts" which also reviews / puts it in the context of other methods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut5kp56wW_4

Completion vs conversational interface is something you can read about in the OpenAI API documentation.

For the remaining things I don't have single specific pointer at hand.