Well, yes, but it's still humans standing on the shoulders of other humans. Even though human players do memorize opening books, it stays in the family so to speak. Meanwhile a human player facing an AI engine is battling both the AI, and great human players of the past (who invented the openings).

It's not truly artificial if it's using a human playbook. (Is the problem posed by the parent, I believe.)

What is 'truly artificial'?

Neural networks are modeled after biological systems to begin with, I don't the that's a meaningful concept at all.

Well, we can extend that to say the biological systems are self-assembled randomly and selected through evolutionary algorithms, starting from random molecules on the sea floor.

Truly artificial means not using meatspace metaphors for reasoning like human players do.