If someone ran past me hollering that they’d just encountered a magical checkout machine at the local gas station, I’d like to think I’m not so gullible that I’d believe them. Yet, to hear of a real-life, super powerful artificial intelligence with vision so fast and so advanced that it could instantaneously pick out the tiniest differences between multiple objects on a three-dimensional checkout plane? Even though in our modern days of mega-mind large language models and GPTs, an AI differentiating between thousands of items in seconds seems like something straight out of science fiction, this “magic checkout” isn’t point-of-sale make-believe.