That's not what the OP claimed, and in a second comment he/she implies AI life forms are inevitable. This is... debatable, to put it mildly.
You cannot say "this definition of life fails to account for an uncertain future phenomenon not everyone is convinced will count as life, therefore your definition of life is incomplete".
Fictional life is not real life. Authors, especially fiction authors, are not bound by the rules of nature. Sometimes they guess right, sometimes they don't, sometimes they simply provide thought experiments or parables.
You cannot say "this definition of life fails to account for an uncertain future phenomenon not everyone is convinced will count as life, therefore your definition of life is incomplete".
Fictional life is not real life. Authors, especially fiction authors, are not bound by the rules of nature. Sometimes they guess right, sometimes they don't, sometimes they simply provide thought experiments or parables.