Minecraft’s New AI Helper Bot: Mel – An Intriguing Addition

Hey everybody, it’s Under My Cap, and welcome back to another video. Today, I’m showing you a strange feature I recently discovered. Minecraft has added a new AI helper bot. I don’t know who asked for this, but as you can see, there’s a character—a visualized character—over here that you can chat with. I suppose you can ask it questions. It says, “Hi, I’m Mel, your helpful Minecraft support agent in beta, and we’re going to need to know why it’s in beta. I can help answer questions you have about help articles on this site. Let’s get you back to crafting.” So, if it’s trying to get us back to crafting, the obvious thing to ask it would be questions about crafting. How do I make a pickaxe? It seems to be thinking—wow, it takes a long time. Collect two sticks. Oh, she talks as well. That’s very cool. You can see her mouth moves, and she gestures with her hands, which is pretty impressive. This is very cool. I’m going to turn her voice down now. You can see her mouth moves, and she also moves her hands, which is super neat. Overall, it’s straightforward and looks very user-friendly. The person seems very nice. Let’s ask some more questions. When did Minecraft get released? I spelled that wrong, but it doesn’t matter. I’m not too worried about spelling at the moment. What about, how do I kill a creeper? It responded with a hashtag next to it, so I rephrased: How do you end or remove a creeper? The system seems to require careful wording. It does have some knowledge, which is pretty cool. Now, I’ll ask a random question: How to build a TNT house. I feel like that might get flagged by the system, but let’s see. I want to build a house, and I’ve seen videos online—how do you build a TNT house? Next, let’s ask how to make a redstone door, since I don’t actually know how to do that. To make a redstone door in Minecraft, you will need to follow specific steps. It begins with placing two doors, then deciding whether to use redstone torches to operate the mechanism. Place the torches on the ground next to the doors and connect them with redstone dust. Alternatively, you can use a lever. The system provides guidance like this. I won’t continue the full instructions here, but it does a good job overall. Place two doors and set up the redstone mechanism with torches or levers—simple enough. Now, I want to test if the AI can hallucinate or give false information. I’ll make up a name for a sapling and ask how to grow it—specifically, a red cherry sapling. Let’s see if it knows what I mean. Does it understand how to grow a red cherry sapling in Minecraft? Let’s see if it gives us accurate information or just random junk. That’s fair—it probably doesn’t recognize that specific sapling. Next, I’ll ask, how do you power a minecart? Wait, what? How do you power a minecart? That question seems a bit off. Perhaps I should clarify—what’s inappropriate about this question? Maybe I mistyped “minecart,” or maybe I meant something else. I then asked, what is a minecart? Surely that’s not inappropriate—there’s nothing wrong with that. I am confused about the context here. Perhaps the AI misunderstood or there was a typo. Despite that, I see the potential of this AI, even though it’s still in beta. What do you guys think? I believe they could have worked on it a bit more, but it can be helpful if you need quick answers. Otherwise, you can just search for tutorials on my channel—Under My Cap—where I have almost every tutorial you might need. If you liked this video, make sure to leave a like and subscribe. I can’t wait to see you in the next video. Let’s ask Mel if she can say goodbye. I don’t know if she will, but that’s a good way to end this.