The definition of life involves many scenarios that do not need to be related to artificial intelligence. I think you were suggesting the term sentience. Howe

The definition of life involves many scenarios that do not need to be related to artificial intelligence. I think you were suggesting the term sentience. However, we should likely devote our energies to AI tools that do not attempt to mimic or achieve sentience. We can make tools that are far beyond the capability of humans while not requiring sentience as part of that equation. Machine sentience and intelligence are independent.