Pope Leo XIV says intelligence must draw on lived memory, not just compile data like algorithms
garrytan · x · 2026-10-09
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan shared Pope Leo XIV's homily at the Pontifical Universities' academic year opening, saying it's why he built GBrain. The Pope argued intelligence must draw on memory — the mind should not merely compile data as algorithms now do faster than humans — but recall lived experiences whose depths only the human soul can recognize. Tan cites this as the philosophical basis for his memory-focused AI product.
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