How can we influence our own future world by encouraging evolution of non-human intelligent species?

I'm getting bored waiting for monkeys or dolphins or crows or whatever to just evolve human-level intelligence. Is there anything practical we can do to create more favorable "natural selection" conditions for intelligence, to encourage its evolution in, say, a thousand years instead of a million?

For instance, if we covered the Earth with food sources that required unlocking a puzzle that a "very smart crow" might figure out, or somehow taught dolphins agriculture, or something like that, it could increase selective pressure for intelligence.

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