Try rephrasing that without referring to people, otherwise you’re supporting my original point. ;)
“Try” does imply autonomy, it implies there was a goal on the part of the individual doing the trying, a choice about whether and how to try, and the possibility for failure to achieve the goal. You can argue that the words “attempt” and “try” can technically be used on machines, but it still anthropomorphizes them. If you say “my poor car was trying to get up the hill”, you’re being cheeky and giving your car a little personality. The car either will or will not make it up the hill, but it has no desire to “try” regardless of how you describe it, and most importantly it will not “try” to do anything without the human driving it.
You’re choosing to ignore my actual point and make this about semantics, which I agree is boring. Show me how GPT has any autonomy or agency of its own, and you can make this a more interesting conversation for both of us.
