imitate and even replicate human behavior technique as dr chris would deal with those inside the hiroshi trees japan to find out how it all works my tech my tech 123 testing testing me erica short for erato intelligent conversational android her name comes from the erato is she good or symbiotic human robot interactions project i'm being developed by researches from the soka university and kyoto university to be capable of human like speech and interaction but to her programmers and visitors she simply erica some people say that my feelings are only programmed that they're not real but if i think they're real then they are real do you think so i'm the lead architect of the eric a project i kind of created her mind and wrote all the software that kind of constitutes you know her brain or controls her behaviors dylan glass is a guest associate professor at osaka university he spent 3 years working on erika a lot of my research has been into how do we create the software how do we create the mind of a robot erica was designed to be the world's most advanced most autonomous android and that

of rakuten, hiroshi mikitani, mickey. mickey: please call me mickey. emily: call you mickey. emily: your new grand plan, a very grand plan, is to launch japan's newest wireless network, it would be the fourth wireless network. mickey: yes. emily: what is the strategy here? mickey: the strategy is very, very simple. our credit card which we started to issue 10 years ago. after 10 years, now we are the biggest credit card company in japan and we are still growing close to 25% year on year. the power of our ecosystem is proven. so we can acquire using our network. we can reach out to them, give them special package and ask them to join our network. the cost is pretty low and with this new architecture, we can reduce our investment. since everything is virtualized and software controlled, mostly automated, our maintenance is going to be less than 1% of our competitors. emily: so you say you can do this for 600 billion yen over 10 years. $5.5 billion, or so. investors are skeptical you can pull this off. what makes you think you can? mickey: because we can. we can. i can't control