I haven't seen evidence of that. They're given a few things to start with. Then they seem to apply a hyper-effective scheme for learning on raw data that combines personal exploration (unsupervised) and societal guidance (supervised). It then takes these brains nearly two decades of training data & experiences to become effective in the real-world. Virtually everything people say about what ANN's might accomplish leaves off that last part that was critical to the superior architecture they're trying to compete with.
