"But I don't want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into deepfakes."

The thing is the same hardware does both, Deepmind should be the best example of a company that's developed both.

Also there is no such thing as 'cancer' it is '_____ cancer' which seems to be about one of a million different things. So technically you have to cure cancer a million times. Expanding our compute ability and smart algorithms to solve the medical issues are a far more scalable option than having humans work on it alone.