没错，你们能力的确强大，但不要忘记一句伟大的哲学家……哦，是蜘蛛侠(Spiderman)的那句名言：“能力越强，责任越大”。
你们有责任把时间花在那些真正困难的问题上。而不要把时间浪费在机器未来能做的事情上，也不要把才华浪费在重复学校所学的基础知识，更不要接受一份没有挑战的工作。勇于冒险，孜孜以求，以“成为某个特殊又有用领域的最顶尖人才”为目标，为己任。
你们有责任做出明智选择。在技术的选择上，要致力于能把世界变得更美好的技术，而不能仅仅局限于先进或很酷。在工作的选择上，要选择能拯救生命的工作，而不是破坏生命的工作；要选择强化人类的工作，而不是取代人类的工作。选老板时，要选择有大爱之人，而不是贪婪小人；要选择想帮助世界的善人，而不是想征服世界的戾气之人。
你们有责任预见和阻止技术成为伤害人类的武器，防止科幻小说中常见的悲剧结局发生。尼克·伯斯托姆(Nick Bostrom)在《超级智能》(Superintelligence)一书中称，“随着机器越来越智能，任何沾沾自喜都是不合时宜的。作为技术专家，你将面临一次有史以来最艰难的考试。你必须保持战战兢兢的最佳状态进入考场。考试过关则实现人类梦想，考试失败则毁灭人类未来。”
最后，我想用亚瑟·克拉克(Arthur Clarke，英国科幻小说家)说过的一句话，也是我最喜欢的科幻名言来结束这次演讲：任何真正的高科技都与魔法无异。
2015届的毕业生，祝贺你们，你们将梦想成真，开创魔法般的绚烂未来！谢谢！
From Science Fiction to Engineering Reality
Kai-Fu Lee
May 17, 2015
Commencement speech delivered at CMU School of Computer Science
First, congratulations to the graduates form the CMU School of Computer Science! I'm deeply honored and grateful that you have invited me to be a part of this seminal moment in your lives. I’m honored and humbled that among many more accomplished SCS graduates, I was chosen to receive an honorary degree this year.
I received my first Ph.D. in four and a half years. This second Ph.D. took 27 years. This program must be getting a lot tougher!
I remember coming to CMU for the first time in 1983, when I was trying to decide what grad school to go to.I was like a kid in the candy store. CMU researchers were teaching machines to talk, listen, see, and walk … I mean hop. And I decided to attend CMU after I saw the machine of my dreams: a coke machine connected to the Internet, to ensure that we had an infinite supply of caffeine.
In 1983, this all seemed like science fiction to me. But now looking back, those technologies were just in their infancy. In 2015, 32 years later today, science fiction is about to become engineering reality. And you are the chosen ones to use them to make the world a better place.
In the next 10 years,the Internet of things will outnumber the Internet of people by two orders of magnitude. If you think about it, you probably only own a hundred meaningful things. So that means virtually every thinkable thing will be connected to the Internet. Will they be used as human amplification or human surveillance? That will be up to you.
In the next 10 years, **ices and the cloud will usually know what we want before we know it, and better than we know it. Not just Google Now telling you about restaurant and transportation. But also questions like "What should I say at the meeting?" or "How should I approach this girl at the bar?” With computer assistants getting smarter than us, will we be liberated or marginalized? That will be up to you.
In the next 10 years, most human jobs will be doable by machines. Machines will replace factory workers, drivers, nurses, accountants, any job that has the word "assistant" or "agent" or "broker" in it. And even some doctors, lawyers, and professors will be partially replaced by machines. (sorry professors sitting behind me) These machines will help us produce most of the world's wealth, freeing much of our time. Will we become creative and find mankind’s destiny, or become mindless pets of these machines? That will be up to you.
You are the generation that will make science fiction into engineering reality. Many commencement speech talks about "you are the generation that matters…". But in your case, it is true!
And undoubtedly, you've chosen the right school. There is no better school than CMU to train you to be a computer scientist or engineer. That's why this school's graduates are the highest paid graduates on the planet. I've hired for Apple, Google, MS — I can tell you: you, the CMU graduates, are not "one of the best". You are THE best.
So you might think you've got it made! You are graduating from the best school, and entering the most exciting field, at a time when you possess the power of youth and productivity.
Yes you have the power. But please remember what the world's greatest philosopher … Spiderman said: "with great power comes great responsibility."
You have a responsibility to work on the hard problems. Don't waste your time doing what machines will be able to do. Don't waste your talent repeating just what you learned at school. Don’t accept a job that doesn’t challenge you. Take risks and vigorously learn, so that you can become the very best in something very specific and very useful.
You have a responsibility to choose wisely. Don't just work on technologies that are advanced and cool, work on technologies make the world a better place. Choose jobs that save lives, not destroy them. Choose jobs that empower people, not displace them. Choose to work for CEOs who has more compassion than greed, who cares more about world peace than world domination.
You have a responsibility to foresee and prevent the dangers of technology and prevent the dystopian endings often found in science fiction. Nick Bostrom said in his book "Superintelligence", "As machines gain superintelligence, any feeling of gee-whiz exhilaration would be out of place. You need to have a bitter determination to be the best that you can be, much as you are preparing for a difficult exam that will either realize your dreams or obliterate them."
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