# Announcing the Conversational AI with Rasa series **URL:** \ **Category:** Important Updates\ **Created:** [July 30, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/announcing-the-conversational-ai-with-rasa-series/46338 "2021-07-30T14:50:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Juste](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/juste/32/15_2.png) [@Juste](https://forum.rasa.com/u/Juste)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/announcing-the-conversational-ai-with-rasa-series/46338/1 "2021-07-30T14:50:09Z")
Hello [@community](https://forum.rasa.com/groups/community)! We are **extremely** excited to share our new project with you - brand new series on our Youtube channel - Conversational AI with Rasa. It’s a 14-episode series focused on developing AI assistants with Rasa Open Source (version 2.x and later). Each episode is dedicated to a specific topic and combines theoretical information with code examples and demos. We are very happy to share the first episode with you [today](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap62n_YAVZ8&ab_channel=Rasa) and the rest of the series will be published over the next few weeks. Make sure to subscribe to our [Youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ0V6493mLvqdiVwOKWBODQ) to catch all the episodes as they come out. Happy learning and happy building! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Ap62n_YAVZ8/maxresdefault.jpg "Conversational AI with Rasa: Introduction to Rasa") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap62n_YAVZ8) ---
**Author:** ![nahidalam](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/nahidalam/32/91_2.png) [@nahidalam](https://forum.rasa.com/u/nahidalam)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/announcing-the-conversational-ai-with-rasa-series/46338/2 "2021-07-30T16:13:32Z")
Great timing @Juste Do you have a link specific to the series in youtube? ---
**Author:** ![rctatman](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/rctatman/32/6734_2.png) [@rctatman](https://forum.rasa.com/u/rctatman)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/announcing-the-conversational-ai-with-rasa-series/46338/3 "2021-07-30T16:48:46Z")
@nahidalam they’ll be coming out over time, but will all be in this playlist: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL75e0qA87dlEjGAc9j9v3a5h1mxI2Z9fi](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL75e0qA87dlEjGAc9j9v3a5h1mxI2Z9fi) ---
**Author:** ![Pascale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c67d28/32.png) [@Pascale](https://forum.rasa.com/u/Pascale)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/announcing-the-conversational-ai-with-rasa-series/46338/5 "2021-07-30T16:53:57Z")
Great intro video. You mention it is suitable for “task oriented” and not “chit-chat” conversations. Where would you class a therapy-bot similar to ELIZA? It’s a structured conversation, but the bot is asking the questions and the user’s intents are not as specific as say ordering a pizza or making a banking transaction. Is RASA suitable for this? Thank you, Pascale ---
**Author:** ![rctatman](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/rctatman/32/6734_2.png) [@rctatman](https://forum.rasa.com/u/rctatman)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/announcing-the-conversational-ai-with-rasa-series/46338/6 "2021-07-30T17:02:09Z")
@Pascale Great Q! A talk therapy bot is slightly orthogonal to the traditional definition of a task oriented dialog system. You could definitely build ELIZA in Rasa, but it would require a lot of custom actions if you want to use the same parse → rephrase approach. On the other hand, if you were looking to build an assistant that connected someone with a specific mental health resource based on their specific needs then that could very easily be framed as a task oriented dialog system & would be pretty straightforward to do with Rasa. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisRahme](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/chrisrahme/32/15572_2.png) [@ChrisRahme](https://forum.rasa.com/u/ChrisRahme)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/announcing-the-conversational-ai-with-rasa-series/46338/7 "2021-07-30T17:08:23Z")
Awesome! Excited to watch the series 😍 ---
**Author:** ![krkc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@krkc](https://forum.rasa.com/u/krkc)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/announcing-the-conversational-ai-with-rasa-series/46338/10 "2021-07-30T21:37:04Z")
So excited to hear that… I can see the episode 1…yayy ---
**Author:** ![LornaJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85e7bf/32.png) [@LornaJ](https://forum.rasa.com/u/LornaJ)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/announcing-the-conversational-ai-with-rasa-series/46338/11 "2021-08-03T09:24:42Z")
Great news and great timing for me! Just cleared my last other project commitments on Friday, so can now focus on RASA full time.