I'm pretty sure we've already got machines that are smarter than the average Tangerine Shitgibbon voter.
@cstross updating the Turing Test so it has to work on someone who, given an instruction manual, can successfully set the clock on an oven or VCR
@zip (1) Turing's original test ("the imitation game" in his paper) is rubbish, and (2) plenty of older people can't set the clock on an oven or VCR because of physical impairments, not just cognitive ones: pick something with a UX designed for human beings rather than to make life simple for engineers instead ...