About Artificial Genius

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Tina Burchard, CEO

A native Southern Californian, Tina Burchard has been pioneering, predicting and positioning life patterns and careers graduating UC Berkely in 1995. 

Having helped launch the first computer technology publication when the market was still heavily unknown, in the initial stage of her career Tina excelled and moved on to enter the then brand new Fintech market - with use of mathematical and analytical skills and data techniques she tripled the business for one of the first secured credit card firms within the first three months of her employment and quickly was made ahead of the entire media arm.

Now noted for having excelled in marketing, Tina was recruited by the worlds largest media management firm, where she managed content and distribution for global companies including major airlines amongst others (managing marketing platforms in print, television, radio, billboards, etc with weekly budgets in the range of $10,000 - $10,000,000 weekly). Following this success Tina led English language operations for one of the major three Latin media companies to break into the US market.

Alongside her executive positions, Tina exercised her entrepreneurial skills, helping several businesses from ground zero to sell under two years.

Throughout this early career, Tina had been working voluntarily with elderly care institutions. She decided to pivot in a career to follow this passion and was offered a research position in UCLA in Gerontology focusing on audiology in the sector. Soon after this Tina became a successfully published medical researcher. As a natural progression and concomitant with ongoing research in medicine Tina pursued a Masters Degree (in Social Welfare with specialization in Health and Aging); upon graduating she was honored by being selected as one of 11 foremost diagnosticians in California to work within Veterans Association pioneering what we now see as mental health treatment for ‘dual diagnosis’ (drug addiction coupled with mental illnesses) which was not widely recognized at the time. Pioneering programs for this typically homeless or incarcerated population in the 1990’s was only just becoming mainstream over the last few years – this led to a number of recognition awards for Tina as well as a feature on her in the LA Times and other l publications. Tina continued this work for a decade before making the conscious decision to leave the service.

In 1999 Tina met Dr Paul Burchard; she worked closely with Dr. Burchard and very proactively managed his career, strategically helping him increase his ability to be productive and creative by moving from academia, to private sector. Her career advice and management brought him to Goldman Sachs where he worked as head of R&D of Goldman Sachs Global for 20 years. Tina gained an understanding of the applications of advanced mathematics in predicting not only financial matters but - most crucially - she saw the potential of other applications of this methodology.

Now once again Tina is demonstrating her uncanny knowledge of how our lives may work in the future and has co-founded Artificial Genius to bring a future generation of ‘Creative AI’ to the world, with a special focus on planet-friendy and humanitarian projects. This new technology will transform our lives by drastically accelerating various aspects of the world including but not limited to medical technology, drug discovery and climate technology.

Additionally - and very importantly - Tina is a lifelong athlete, having raised two children who are currently nationally ranked athletes; She believes strongly and ‘sound and body as in mind’ and is actively involved in philanthropic work, raising funds for organizations which promote sports for children all over the world such as The Poseidon Foundation, promoting sports for disabled and underprivileged children and The McKenna Clare Foundation funding pediatric cancer research (please see links below). 

McKenna Clare foundation
https://mckennaclairefoundation.org/about/the-foundation/

Poseidon Foundation
https://www.poseidenfoundation.org/about-us

Paul Burchard, CTO

Paul Burchard is a multidisciplinary innovator of 5+ decades producing high value breakthroughs in diverse fields that overturned decades of stagnant ideas. Direct creator of commercial value for 2+ decades, including 6 years focused on the difficult problem of successfully executing the innovation process (typical failure rate of 90%+) in a business setting.

Paul co-founded the Core Research and Development group at Goldman Sachs as an internal startup to serve as a firmwide transformational technology innovation center working in deep collaboration with diverse businesses across the firm to generate new revenue. Designed sustainable business model, wrote pitch deck, presented to internal investors, got the startup funded with a multi-million-dollar budget, hired the team, attracted customers, solely managed or co-managed a group of up to 50 people to successfully execute the business plan over 6 years. Key collaborative innovations included fundamental breakthroughs in Generative AI, Digital Assets, Risk Management, Data Privacy, Quantum Computing, and more.

Paul also provided breakthrough innovations at a critical point in the evolution of Moore’s Law around the year 2000, when the microchip industry was running out of optical wavelengths of light with which to print smaller features. It was not until 2019 that the industry was able to adopt microchip manufacturing technology based on sub-optical wavelengths, known as EUV, into the production process at scale. Thus, without Paul’s innovations, there would have been a 2-decade gap in the progress of information technology. Paul showed that the Rayleigh Limit that was believed to be a physical barrier to imaging smaller features was misunderstood, and invented mathematical methods that solved decade-old open problems in nonlinear image processing, that enabled the manufacturing of arbitrarily small features onto microchips using only optical wavelengths and conventional lithography.

But Paul’s most important contribution to the advance of technology has been through his many decades of independent research into the nature of intelligence, likely the most difficult problem that humanity has posed itself. In perhaps the most interdisciplinary research project ever undertaken - involving philosophy, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, mathematics, complex system theory, statistical mechanics, and other disciplines, Paul has been able to understand many of the conceptual revolutions that biology has produced over hundreds of millions of years of evolution to solve this problem, which go far beyond the ideas that humanity itself has been able to come up with despite centuries of thought.