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Brenda E. Smith

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Spellbound by wanderlust after working as a whitewater river guide for Sobek Expeditions, Brenda has lived, worked, or traveled in over forty countries. While overseas, Brenda pursued adventures on less-traveled roads through remote villages, collecting a raft of stories about her exploits. While earning her MS in Philanthropy and Media, she co-produced, co-directed and co-edited an episode for the PBS series The Visionaries shot in Kenya and Tanzania. Now retired, she lives in Belfast, Maine, documenting cherished memories of her escapades in memoirs, essays and poems, often pounding the keyboard into the wee hours of the morning. When the ocean calls, she can be found rowing a dory in Belfast Harbor.

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Sounds Right: When to Trust ChatGPT, and When It's Confidently Wrong (Understand & Trust AI)

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