Slaves to the Machine? Or not? Or not yet? The Ramanujan Machine has come up with many conjectures about continued fractionsPremium Share Via Eventually, humans will be obsolete." If reading that sentence generates a small knot in the pit of my stomach, I have to wonder, what does it feel like to say it? TRENDING STORIESSee All 2 min read Premium 1 min read Premium 2 min read Premium 2 min read . 11:24 AM IST That’s exactly what I read in a recent article (AI maths whiz creates tough new problems for humans to solve, Nature, 3 February 2021). It is a quote from Doron Zeilberger, a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University. What prompted his pessimism? Or is it optimism?