AlphaGo (and other game programs using reinforcement-learning) without human database
I'm no expert but it looks like AlphaGo Zero answers your question.
https://deepmind.com/blog/alphago-zero-learning-scratch/


  Previous versions of AlphaGo initially trained on thousands of human
  amateur and professional games to learn how to play Go. AlphaGo Zero
  skips this step and learns to play simply by playing games against
  itself, starting from completely random play. In doing so, it quickly
  surpassed human level of play and defeated the previously published
  champion-defeating version of AlphaGo by 100 games to 0.