Micah uses a neural network to check the tone of each comment, and if viewed as ‘negative’, the bot will view it as an objection, while more positive comments make the charcater sprites happier. If more than two users are part of the debate, they are represented by tertiary Ace Attorney characters, expressing the two most prominent commentators.You can try it yourself by commenting! Objectionbot in a comment thread on Reddit – the bot will apparently take about 10 minutes to create the video and send you a message with a link to the video (although Micah points out that it’s still a cart) ). The source code of the bot can also be found here if you want to investigate how it all works.
Micah told Mashable that the bottle took him three days to complete and that they plan to keep it going ‘for a few months’. In other news about Ace Attorney, here is our review of the latest generation Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy collection, which was launched in April 2019. We scored it a 7.5 for providing a “solid collection of court documents”.
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