That use maybe should have been "simulated life" all along, so as to be more exact. This is a living organism that is artificially made, "artificial life" applies to it just as much as the other subject. Though the more specific terms that capture the way in which their somethings are artificial are good too.
'This is a living organism that is artificially made, "artificial life" applies to it just as much as the other subject.'
Maybe. But if you end up with a living organism, then that it's not artificial life; it's life (albeit artificially manufactured) . Whereas the software stuff is never anything but artificial.
Long run I'd expect anything that's alive to be called life, regardless of the process that lead to it.
