A quick careless Google didn’t yield Scott Aaronson’s take on this, which as a layperson is the one take I’d regard seriously.

Has he remarked on it and my search-fu failed?

Yes, he gave comments for a New Scientist piece about it: "“It’s tremendously exciting,” says Scott Aaronson at the University of Texas at Austin. “It’s been clear for a while that decoding and correcting the errors quickly enough, in a fault-tolerant quantum computation, was going to push classical computing to the limit also. It’s also become clear that for just about anything classical computers do involving optimisation or uncertainty, you can now throw machine learning at it and they might do it better.”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457207-google-deepmind...