[maweaver]

Anyone using Eliza for more than a couple of minutes will quickly pick up on its tricks. Even in their cherry picked example it barely makes it a few messages in before the illusion starts to shatter with awkward lines like "Do you think coming here will help you to not be unhappy?". It might pass the turing test once or twice by sheer luck but it's clearly not competitive with a human conversing in general.

[throwaway4good]

Sure. With today’s eyes it is obviously a primitive computer program. But back then it was convincing to point where people suggested replacing real person psychologists with this.

Likewise I think 50 years from now looking at present day ChatGPT it would terrible primitive and very unconvincing.