I think democratizing AI means more than "a very reasonable enterprise price point" of $1000.
It doesn't, you can run this on $150 GTX 1060s if you're willing to wait a few moments. The interesting angle here is that there is a consumer segment of hardware (gaming GPUs) that can be used to drive cool artistic experiments. I think for most people, even non-gamers, getting dedicated acceleration hardware is not any more expensive than an entry-level analog synthesizer.
With only 4GB, I'm RAM limited for a lot of models. I'm thinking of buying a dedicated GPU just for ML stuff.
Democratic means fit on an iPhone if not on $50 throw-away hardware.
Won't enterprise always go for the quadro cards which are more like $4000+