[n4r9]

I'm not sure it is begging the question, at least not if framed properly.

The question seems to be to be "what exact criteria categorises what is commonly meant when people talk about what is alive". I think you could interpret OP as claiming that there is an idea of artificial or alien life as presented in science fiction which people would commonly describe as life but may not replicate.

[the_af]

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.