So, I don't disagree with that. What I disagree with is the characterization of the machine as doing any of that. "[H]ad simply modified human language for the purposes of more efficient interaction" anthropomorphizes the hell out of the machine, and confuses the issue. The machines don't understand English or any other human language and weren't modifying it to any sort of purpose. The machines were given a training corpus and made to communicate between agents and something fell out, and the exact manner of it was about as intentional as an apple falling out of a tree intends to hit this branch or that branch on the way down.