I think they generally wouldn't be considered AI, because, typically, they are scanning a bar code. However, I would say that if you were in, for example, an Amazon warehouse and there was a machine, for example, doing a visual scan of a product and identifying that product, that generally would be considered as AI. Even when two different technologies essentially do a very similar thing, one might fall within the definition of AI and the other one might not, actually.
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