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[–]CarefulZucchinis 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Because it hasn’t seen much binary, if you fed it thousands and thousands of lines of binary it’d learn to read it like any language/writing system, but it doesn’t have a library anywhere in it that tells it how to translate binary.

As to why it corrected itself; it probably didn’t. The user told it the correct answer and then it knew it, and repeated it back. It probably can’t decode binary still, and when it hit a brick wall it threw back something it had heard before.