Using machine learning to solve number series problems

Lets start with this simple number series question. Find the next few numbers in this series 2, 5, 8, 11, 14... From the numbers it is trivial to guess that each number is 3 more than the previous number. So the numbers would be 17, 20, 23. This would be the end of this post if there were no machine learning. Can we predict the next number using some machine learning techniques.