Reality Check: Evolution of silicon-based sentient life-form?

Is it realistic for me to write about a time period where silicon-based sentience have evolved alongside humans? Perhaps they could have evolved to sentience when driven by nanobots (which could be like their 'cells') and artificial intelligence (which acted as a kind of 'artificial selection' in the direction of their evolution). They need to be individuals, not just a aggregate of processing power and human design.

The key is that this life-form must have evolved with us, perhaps surfacing a hundred years in the future, and they must have evolved to sentience and self-sufficiency without us knowing.

Is this realistic? Could something as complex as this artificial evolution occur right under our noses without us knowing, even if the AI goes out of its way to hide it?

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