It all depends on what the definition of life is. If the definition is “Self replicating information” it has already happened. It’s called a computer virus.
There is a school of thought that the universe itself is a vast computer. At the quantum level, particles sequentially hover between ‘existing’ and ‘not existing’ - setting up a cosmic binary system. “Life”, it is postulated, is a computer virus that has been introduced into the system, creating all sorts of havoc.