In the near future, man cannot beat the computer chess software. There was a time when Garry Kasparov, then the world chess champion, was beaten by Big Blue, a computer software. That was before the year 2000, if I remember correctly. So now if a computer software will participate in a chess tournament against the best grandmasters in the world, it is said that the software will surely be in the top 3. Is this a portent of things to come from the software in this modern time?
It makes sense why the computer could win... It could calculate every possible move and every outcome of each thing Kasparov did. So it knew if he did X that Y would happen. (Essentially it played out every possible game based on each move.) And in the time since computers have advanced quite a bit. This means possibly even consumer grade systems could run the program to beat a champion.
I mean every day, most of us, walk around with more processing power than what Humans went to space with. (Our cellphones are hundreds of times more powerful.) And as tech advances its only going to continue.