“There’s a big if here, because we are very skeptical ourselves whether this actually works,” Thrun said at a January press conference. “We set it up as an experiment of scale, but we don’t know if this is a viable path to education.”
At the same conference, Brown seemed to expect some hiccups along the way as well.
“Failure is the precursor for success,” he said.
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