I played with ELIZA back the 70s as a student. I wasn't fooled, and nobody I knew was fooled. I wasn't a CS student, either.

One rapidly realizes how its answers are formed from the questions, and for questions not in a handful of forms, you get one of a very small number of generic responses.

Smart CS students in the 1960s and professional AI engineers with Ph.D level education (as I believe he has) in 2022 are a world apart.

And now you have empirical evidence that a Ph.D education just means someone stayed in school entirely too long.

While we have become over-credentialed nowadays, I wouldn't say a smart CS student from the 1960s is worlds above a current day person with a PhD level education. We're at least in the same ballpark as the bright olden days bachelors degree holders.

RMS wasn't able to fool his own EMACS DOCTOR:

http://www.art.net/studios/hackers/hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-d...

People who proclaim themselves to be "Christian Mystics" are more gullible and prone to self deception than smart CS students.

I don’t think those students were told they were being evaluated though did they? They didn’t know Eliza was a machine right?