I think we will invent AI and give life to artificial forms. How do you define life is the question.

I think life could be distilled as an "adaptive resistance to entropy". Right now our machines can't create or repair themselves completely. They also can't evolve. When this happens, then machines will be alive.

The AI side of the equation, is them just getting smarter. That's inevitable, but without the aforementioned embodiment of life they are simple simulations, or mirrors of intellect. Disembodied and just as good as dead.