What matters about language in the context of this tech is that language and meaning are relational, that communication is a joint activity, and that systems set up to mimic the form of language can provide the illusion that they understand, that they know things, and that they are reasoning.
So, read this, not that:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html