Overloaded type annotations not compiled by Sphinx
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Description
### What's the problem?
We have used the `overload` decorator to provide more specific type hints in several places, e.g. in `kernels.ScalarValuedKernel`, but these are not rendered by Sphinx. Instead, Sphinx just shows the generic `Union` of several possible types. Moreover, if we rely on `overload` with class inheritance, no annotations are compiled at all, e.g. `kernels.scalar_valued.SquaredExponentialKernel.compute_elementwise`.
`overload` with class inheritance should work as of Python 3.12 - I'm unsure about earlier Python versions. Sphinx issues from a few years ago (pre-Python 3.12) also suggest this should work.
### How can we reproduce the issue?
Compile documentation and look at classes mentioned above.
### Python version
3.12
### Package version
0.2.1
### Operating system
Windows
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